Creating the HTML skeleton

The first thing we need to do is create an empty skeleton page that we can use as the base for all our examples, as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

  <head>
    <title>Example 01.01 - Basic skeleton</title>
    <script src="../libs/three.js"></script>
    <style>
      body{
        /* set margin to 0 and overflow to hidden, to use the complete page */

        margin: 0;
        overflow: hidden;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>

    <!-- Div which will hold the Output -->
    <div id="WebGL-output">
    </div>

    <!-- Javascript code that runs our Three.js examples -->
    <script>

      // once everything is loaded, we run our Three.js stuff.
      function init() {
        // here we'll put the Three.js stuff
      };
      window.onload = init;

    </script>
  </body>
</html>

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