What happens when you type a web address and press Enter
HTML, CSS and JavaScript: why one web page needs many requests
You open one web page. Your browser then asks the website again and again, for pictures, colors and scripts. Why does one page need so many requests?
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One request went out, and one text came back. Yet the page you wait for has a photo of the Moon, colors of its own and a menu that opens when you tap.
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Your browser reads the text. Marks in angle brackets say what each part is: h1 for the main title, p for a paragraph. A text written this way is HTML, and it describes the page part by part.
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