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Startup1
Startup1

Reputation: 257

Are all web pages HTML?

I see all these tools for web page creation. (Java, PHP , ASP.NET , CSS, WordPress...) When I save a web page, it's always HTML. Does that mean that all these tools are platforms for creating HTML web pages? Or are they alternatives to HTML altogether?

Also, if they are all HTML, why do web hosts advertise they have Linux / Windows? What does it matter?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 15543

Answers (5)

undone
undone

Reputation: 7888

you mentioned two different thing: First HTML:
this is basic language for showing data on web. All pages are sent as HTML page and your browser renders HTML and shows you images and links and ...
The other thing is web programing languages like php,asp,java... . they are languages that process data like verifying user name and password and send its result as HTML to user.


the other thing you've mentioned about hosting:
every programing languagehas its own requirements for example if you want to write a program in ASP.NET, so you have to use windows server.
so it depents on your need to choose one.

Upvotes: 1

Antoine Gersant
Antoine Gersant

Reputation: 536

HTML is a markup language which your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.) can read to render what people usually call a webpage. However, your browser can also render image files (try opening a photo with it), XML files and many other file formats.

When you try to access a URL (let's say http://www.stackoverflow.com), your computer sends a request to the server which hosts the site. Any technology can be running on the server (Java, PHP, etc.) to process your request. The server is a physical machine which can be running any OS (Windows, Linux, etc.) and software. Eventually, the server returns a response to your browser (oftentimes the response will contain an HTML page for the browser to display).

Wordpress which you mentioned is a content management system which helps people making PHP websites.

CSS is a markup language which is used to decorate HTML pages. Most HTML pages refer to a CSS stylesheet which your browser retrieves and then interprets.

Upvotes: 25

Svish
Svish

Reputation: 158021

For a web page, HTML is always the "end product" sent to the browser (in addition to any images, stylesheets, script files, etc which the HTML links to).

  • Java, PHP, ASP.Net are server-side languages you can use to generate HTML dynamically on the server (in comparison to just serving static HTML files)
  • CSS is styling for your HTML. You either write it in the HTML page itself, or in a separate CSS file which you then link to from the HTML.
  • WordPress is a complete CMS (Content Management System) built on PHP and MySQL.

Upvotes: 9

axiomer
axiomer

Reputation: 2126

Basically, the client-side output is HTML in the most cases although it cannot be only that, but that is the standard. The PHP, ASP, etc. are running server-side and you cannot see them. Only exception is JavaScript, which runs clientside so you can see it if you're viewing the source, but finally, the page output will be HTML.

Note: CSS is a formatting system. WordPress is a blogsystem (or now a CMS) written in PHP. So you're mixing some basic points.

Upvotes: 1

TheBrillowable
TheBrillowable

Reputation: 319

They use HTML just for the basic layout. You can do Websites which don't use any HTML. The OS of the server is just a usage/performance question for the hoster. Also I think there proprietary Windows-standards that Linux servers can't handle, but I'm not sure on that one.

Upvotes: 1

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