This week you learned that HTML is about elements and tags. Some developers may

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This week you learned that HTML is about elements and tags. Some developers may argue that the path through front end development begins with HTML, while others may consider it a more archaic form of web development as the capabilities of web browsers and web development tools increase. (For example, if you replace “<p>This is a paragraph</p>” with “This is a paragraph” you don’t see much difference on a browser.)

In your opinion, why do we learn HTML if the HTML tags do not seem to make much of a difference? What is the “job” of HTML? Should we continue to teach HTML? In your answer, be sure to distinguish between the structure and presentation of a web page.

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HTML tags might not make much of a difference , but almost all of the sites on the internet today are HTML based. So we should definitely continue to teach HTML.

“<p>This is a paragraph</p>” may definitely turn out as the same thing in the browser , but it wont work according to you when you write bold letters in the code and expect bold letters to appear in the browser.

It will only happen when you do this:

<strong>This text is in bold </strong>

C is one of the most archaic programming languages , but it is still the most popular one along with java.

The way it works is that browsers are fed with DOMs (Document Object Models) written in HTML , browsers are able to read HTML and then render a webpage according to the HTML and then display the page as we see it.

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