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CSS CSS Foundations Advanced Selectors Pseudo-Elements: ::first-line and ::first-letter

Peter Krieg
Peter Krieg
7,388 Points
Posted by Peter Krieg
Peter Krieg
7,388 Points

What exactly is the difference between the "source code" and "markup" that is mentioned in this video and others?

I've heard lots of mentions of "markup" and "source code". Does this refer to the original HTML document? Does "making the markup cleaner" mean having fewer HTML tags I assume? What is the difference between the "markup" and "source code" mentioned in this video.

Thanks a lot for any clarification.

1 Answer

Sika Stanton
Sika Stanton
2,198 Points

Source code refers to a computer programming language like JavaScript, markup refers to written information in HTML documents. Like <h1> </h1> means "this is a header." Clean markup has efficient well organized tags.