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Posted by Clayton Batchelor
Clayton Batchelor
5,817 Points

What is the best place to put text?

In the html? Or CSS? Or Javascript? Just wondering what is more professional. What would load faster. I have seen in many different ways.

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

The conventional roles for the components of a web page are that HTML is for the content, CSS is for styling and JavaScript is for functionality.

So without any more information, I would expect "text" would be considered part of the content and should therefore be included in the HTML.

Clayton Batchelor
Clayton Batchelor
5,817 Points

Thank you. I was just wondering because when i go through the Internet I have seen people with only tags no text in the site. I was wondering if there was an actual reason to look more professional or more talented. Or thought it could be faster if you put it in css. But I will stick to keep it into the html.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

It could be that the code is loaded dynamically with JavaScript, which might make sense if the content changes very frequently, particularly if it updates "live" while you are viewing the page. But this would be unnecessary complexity for text that doesn't change.