How Form 2350 Edition 2023-2024

As we begin building web pages, one of the things that is important to understand is what plain text is. When we're coding HTML or CSS or JavaScript, we're using plain text, and that's an important detail. We are really used to using formatted text, so here is a Word document where I just put a few bits of text. This is formatted text, and whenever you use a word processor, that's what you get - formatted text. By color, it can vary in size. You can align it left, right, center. Lists are formatted with numbers and indentation. Tables are bordered and aligned. And all of these things you get with formatted text. So let's see what that would look like in a plain text editor, so we can see the difference. So, if I think this file, and I open that in a plain text editor, this is what it looks like. And here, notice that we're really just getting byte code. So we're not seeing what's actually there because this particular plain text editor shows in Fight Club. But look at the little scroll bar over here and see how long this is. And when you saw that document on the word processor, it's very small, has very little content. But look how much is really there to make that formatted text work. We can see the same document opened up in a different plain text editor. This is Notepad++. And this looks different because this particular plain text editor shows the formatted text in a different way. Notice the scroll bar going down. It's not as long; it doesn't seem like there's as much. But it's really, really wide. So there's still all of this content in that little teeny page. So what we see in this Word...