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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Follow Along with Workspaces

Maryanne Gray
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Maryanne Gray
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workspaces

Can someone give me the dumbed down explanation of work spaces. for example when I try to preview my work, there is a dropped down menu that asks me to select a port

Hi Maryanne,

what u can do is, once u have made your changes to the index.html file, save your work and then, by clicking the "eye"preview icon choose your "default" port (which i assume will be 80), and then once browser window loads probably u wont see any changes, but once u refresh, they should appear.

Hope that helped. Please update us once tried this method. Happy coding!

Maryanne,

You select the eye icon as shown in the video to preview your work in the workspace after it's saved. - Michelle Pepe

1 Answer

Maryanne, "Ports" are part of the software layers of internet internals. TCP/IP port 80 is used most often for HTTP communications. Though one can use other ports. For example, using a secure connection (HTTPS) would probably use port 443.

If you want to know more browse to wikipedia's "port 80" web page.

Hope that helps, Adam