There are two fundamental languages for building any website: HTML and CSS. What’s their difference? Let’s dig in and find out.
\n\n\n\nHTML and CSS, while both being programming languages, are used for different purposes. HTML is the language that is used to create a web page, including text, links and images. It is also what you use when editing content on your website. CSS, on the other hand, has two main functions: it controls how elements of a webpage look like (elements include fonts, colours and sizes) as well as how they behave in certain circumstances- for example if an element should be fixed or scroll with the rest of the page).
\n\n\n\nHTML is an acronym of “HyperText Markup Language,” which is used for creating web pages and web applications. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, which is basically the language of webpages. It’s used by browsers to interpret text formatting and display them as well as embedded objects or images. This includes headers, paragraphs, lists, links/buttons etc. The code itself is written in lowercase letters with no spaces separating them (e.g., h1). It is free to use and doesn’t require any license.
\n\n\n\nCSS is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document in HTML format. It is independent of HTML and can be used with any XML-based markup language. The separation of HTML from CSS makes it easier to maintain sites and share style sheets across pages, and tailor pages to different environments. To style your HTML elements, you’ll use CSS properties that you set a value for. You then attach these properties to an HTML tag or class. CSS is used to make your HTML code look good and if you want your website to look good, use CSS.
\n\n\n\nHTML and CSS are often used in tandem for web design. In fact, one usually follows the other to bring together all of the elements on a page. HTML is primarily concerned with providing structures while CSS handles styling by adding colour, size, spacing etc., to content within those structures that have been outlined using HTML codes; hence why it’s called Cascading Style Sheets!
\n\n\n\nHTML has long been considered as more versatile than its counterpart because it can be formatted into hyperlinks or tables whereas formatting via pure CSS does not allow this type of flexibility but rather allows you only access styles like font-size/font-weight which do nothing when trying to produce an interactive table from scratch.
\n\n\n\nIf you want to chat this through with us to find out what we can do in terms of coding and the languages used for your site (whilst also making it more carbon-friendly might we add!) then get in touch with us today.
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