Lessons > 2. The Building Blocks of the Web

In this lesson, we will review how web pages get rendered in your web browser, and how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together to create web pages.

Review the Slides

1. Intro to Browsers & Web Languages

Watch the Lecture Video(s)

1. Intro to the Web Browser (lecture recording)

Review / Study the Supplemental Materials

1. Course staff (2020). HTML Resources. CS 130 Course Website
   Please review the following sections:
   • HTML Resources
   • Rules of Thumb
   • Text Markup Tags
   • Hyperlinks
   • Image Tags
   • Media Tags
   • Compound Tags
   • Form Tags
2. James Williamson Playlist 1: Formatting Page Content with HTML .
   Please review the following sections:
   • Welcome
   • The importance of HTML
   • Basic HTML syntax
   • Exploring an HTML document
   • Using headings
   • Formatting paragraphs
   • Controlling line breaks
   • Displaying images
   • Exploring the anchor element
   • Linking to pages within your site
   • Linking to external pages
   • Linking to regions
   • Unordered lists
   • Ordered lists

Optional Readings

• Tali Garsiel and Paul Irish (2011). How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers . https://www.html5rocks.com/