Chapter 9
Understanding CSS and JavaScript
In This Chapter
Understanding how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together
Using CSS for text styling
Using CSS for positioning text and graphics
Designing web pages with WordPress
Using JavaScript in web pages
The preceding chapter introduced and explained key basics for HTML. Anyone who works in web development needs to know the basics of how HTML works.
In this chapter, we introduce the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript, which are additional key elements in understanding how web pages are put together. Taken together, this information is crucial for all web developers. But it affects you differently depending on your role.
If you are a novice web developer who will be creating web pages directly, you need to learn this information thoroughly. Good starting resources are the tutorial made available by the World Wide Web Consortium, which you can find at www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Category:Tutorials.
If you are an ...
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