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What is HTML and how does it relate to your shopping cart
What is HTML and why is it important for my shopping cart?
HTML is an acronym that stands for hypertext markup language. This is the code that most web pages are created with. When you look at a web page you see the results of that code, you do not see the code itself. If your browser is Internet Explorer (about 80% of web users) you can get a glance at the HTML code by clicking on Page, then View Source. This will open the Windows utility called Notepad and show you the code that was used to create the page you are currently looking at. This reveals a fundamental fact about web pages: there is always code behind every web page that causes what is seen by the web page visitor to be displayed.
This code is translated by your browser, whether it be Internet Explorer, Netscape, FireFox or any of the other browsers available. That is why you will almost always need a browser to view a web page. Web pages written in HTML will have what is called an 'extension' and it will look something like this : http://www.anysite.com/webpage.html or http://www.anysite.com/webpage.htm. The 'extension' is located at the end of the line and consists of the '.html' or '.htm'. As you look at more web pages, occasionally you will come across pages that do not end in the traditional '.html' or '.htm'. Instead you might see '.php', '.asp' or something else. These are slightly different programming languages that have emerged to allow web pages to have more flexibility and greater capabilities. Each new programming language however does contain the basic elements of HTML. Many web sites will contain web pages that have a combination of these programming languages and show a greater flexibility in what they can do.
Your eCommerce web site may be written entirely in HTML or one of the other languages. Either way it will contain significant elements of HTML. The pages in your online shopping cart will also contain code either entirely or partially written in HTML.
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