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A web page or "webpage" is a document in a format suitable for access through a [[web browser]]. Such documents are usually written in [[HTML]] format, and may provide navigation to other webpages via [[hypertext]] links.

==Retrieval of web pages==
Webpages are typically retrieved from a remote [[web server]] located on the public [[web|World Wide Web]]. They may also be retrieved from the user's local computer, or from a [[web server]] located on a private [[local area network]].

The [[web browser]] requests and receives a given webpage from the web server using the [[HyperText Transfer Protocol]] (HTTP). Each web page is identified by a unique [[Uniform Resource Locator]] (URL) which enables the web browser to find it on the web server.

==Static webpages and dynamic webpages==
A [[static webpage]] is a file of static [[HTML]]text stored within the [[web server]]'s file system.

A [[dynamic webpage]] is one that changes or is customized automatically, through the action of a [[scripting language]]. The script may act either client-side or server-side:
*Client-side scripting is embedded within the web page, and acts on the user's [[User Interface|computer interface]] when the webpage is read by the [[web browser]]
*Server-side scripting acts on the [[web server]] to modify or reconstruct the [[webpage]] automatically each time the page is requested by a [[web browser]]


to change the supplied page source between pages, adjusting the sequence or reload of the web pages or web content supplied to the browser.

Server-side script 
(In practice, however, frequently-requested pages are stored in the server's [[cache]] rather than being reconstructed at each request.) The web server constructs the HTML for each webpage by using a standard format and layout of selected elements, and then fetching the appropriate contect for each element from the website's [[data base]].


==External links==
*Wikipedia article about web pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page
*Wikipedia article about static web pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_Web_page
*Wikipedia article about dynamic web pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_web_page

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