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HTML & JavaScript Basics

Web Fundamentals

Simple

HTML & JavaScript Basics is a building block of "Web Fundamentals". In plain terms: html, javascript, http, cookies, sessions, apis and how web apps are built. This topic focuses specifically on html & javascript basics and the core ideas you need to understand it.

Technical

Technically, HTML & JavaScript Basics involves the mechanisms, data structures and protocols that underpin web fundamentals. You will study how it is implemented, how it is configured, how it fails, and how its behavior shows up in logs, traffic or code.

Why it matters

Web apps are the largest attack surface on the internet.

Example

In a real organization, professionals working in appsec, bug bounty, web pentesting, waf tuning. rely on html & javascript basics to make decisions — for example, explaining an alert, hardening a system, or writing a finding in a report.

Practice idea

Build a small lab in a VM and experiment with html & javascript basics using the related tools below. Document what you observe.

Deep dive

Read the official documentation and relevant RFCs/standards for HTML & JavaScript Basics. Explore edge cases, internals, and how attackers and defenders view it differently.

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