What happens when you type a web address and press Enter
Rendering: how your browser turns HTML and CSS into the page you see
A website never sends a picture of its page. Your browser gets a long text and a few files. Then it draws every pixel of the page itself.
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A picture of the page would fit one screen only. From one description, a phone makes a narrow page, a laptop a wide one, and a browser can even read it aloud.
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So your phone draws the page itself. Its screen is a grid of tiny dots called pixels, and every one needs a color.
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