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Is HTML and CSS really a programming language?!

5/23/2022 | ...sec read

So you may know what HTML is? It is a programming language to organize your text. Like adding context and structure. Well what is programming then? "a programming language allows you to describe some sort of process of doing something, " Thanks to stack overflow for that definition.

Let's think about it, in python you can create a process or do something like running a function and collecting user input. But in HTML you can collect input as a form but then you can't do anything with that data unless you have Javascript. Another example: CSS is used to style and create but since it doesn't create process or run functions it is not a programming language. Since html and css is a way of adding context and structure to text and styling it, it is not a offical coding language Don't be bummed though, more complex things involving HTML like Javascript, and Ajax then those are considered a offical programming language

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