Jan 25, 2013 · HTML is in no way a programming language. Programming languages deals with ''proccessing functions'', etc. HTML just deals with the visual interface of a web page, where the actual programming handles the proccessing. PHP for example. If anyone really knows programming, I really can't see how people can mistake HTML for an actual programming ...

CSS+HTML actually is turing complete because you can encode Rule 110 in CSS. That said, it would be prohibitively impractical to try to write programs in HTML and CSS. People who say they program in HTML are generally mistaken about programming. HTML is a markup language and CSS is a style sheet language. HTML is designed to store content ...

Aug 12, 2011 · Of course, the same isn't true of a markup language like HTML or CSS. In fact, there are whole classes of problem that these languages simply can't solve. Where I can program anything I want in a true programming language - including layout engines - it just isn't possible to achieve the same things with languages that aren't T-C.

Aug 17, 2014 · Imagine i want to define a new HTML tag or new CSS property, or even a new language. for example instead of using tags <>, I want to define a language to use brackets [] and new CSS-resembling syntax: [foo style(bar: .....)] How they (developers) do this? and which programming language they use, which approach they follow? p.s.1: I'm not going ...

Apr 20, 2010 · It is true that CSS is not "Turing complete", but it does not need to be in order to be a language. CSS is a declarative programming language that (among other things) manipulates nodes of the DOM in appearance, position, etc., and whose details of implementation (the "How" does it achieve that) are hidden (abstracted) from the user. –

Jun 4, 2021 · A lot of "HTML5" features you hear about aren't HTML5 at all, but rather things you can do with JavaScript (a programming language) in a modestly-capable browser. HTML5 is increasingly taking over (or has taken over) the role of defining both the structure of web pages and the API to interacting with them from a programming language.

May 29, 2009 · As everyone else said, CSS is your only real option, but there is another language for "style sheet formatting type things" on the web, called eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), particularly the subset of the spec that became known as XSL-FO (formatting objects).

I'd like to display snippets of programming language code, and also HTML code, inside an HTML document using CSS. I want it to be indented and in fixed-width font... I'm thinking of something like:...

Nov 20, 2013 · HTML is a markup language, hence the name HyperText Markup Language. You are effectively the modern day equivalent of a typesetter in the print industry. If you have minimal input in the page creation process then you're probably a Coder, however if you have significant input into page layout, then the job role is normally referred to as being ...

Mar 28, 2010 · Without Javascript, neither of them remotely resemble a regular procedural programming language like Python or Ruby. To learn a (regular) real programming language, you need to understand basic programming constructs like variables, ifs, and loops; HTML and CSS have nothing like them.