At the most basic level, a website consists of an HTML document. The browser that you use to view the website is a program that interprets HTML and CSS and renders the style, content, and structure into the page that you see.

In addition to parsing the style and structure of the HTML and CSS, the browser creates a representation of the document known as the Document Object Model. This model allows JavaScript to access the text content and elements of the website document as objects.

JavaScript is an interactive language, and it is easier to understand new concepts by doing. Let’s create a very simple website. Create an index.html and save it in a new project directory.

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