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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HTML AND CSS

HTML is a markup language used to create static web pages and web applications. CSS is a style sheet language responsible for the presentation of document written in a markup language.```

1. WHAT IS HTML?

HTML is the Hypertext,markup,language ,which is designed to create the structured document and provide for semantic meaning behind the document.

Hypertext Markup Languge. It’s a text-based code that defines the structure and content of web page. Html is used to tell web browsers how to display text, images, and media.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
   <head>
       <title>html example<!title>
     <!head>
     <body>
         <p>this is sample html        document
     <!body>
<!html>

WHAT IS CSS?

Cascade Styling Sheets. In short, it is a sheet style language, which is a type of language you can use to describe the presentation of a markup language in this case, to describe the movements of HTML. It effectively determines how the building blocks, as laid by HTML, are decorated and presented to the user.
CSS was first created around 1996 to make sense of HTML and make the webpage look and feel amazing. Just as with any language, you have to write css, and knowing how we write css is a skill that any webpagedeveloper needs to have. Easy to maintain, css is the second part of the two-part tool kit for webpage creation.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
bo  dy {
background-color: lightblue;
}

h1 {
  color: white;
  text-align: center;
}

p {
  font-family: verdana;
  font-size: 20px;
}
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
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