How a Browser Shows a Page

When you type a web address, your browser sends a request to a web server, the server sends back the page's HTML in a response, and the browser draws it; View Source shows you that HTML.

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Codey's cheat sheet for How a Browser Shows a Page: When you type a web address, your browser sends a request to a web server, the server sends back the page's HTML in a response, and the browser draws it; View Source shows you that HTML.
Category
HTML
Level
Novice
Tags
Domain Name, html, request, Response (web-development), URL, Web browser, Web server, web-development