I'm working on a responsive design would like to know if it is better to style an element using JavaScript or with CSS? CSS is certainly easier to maintain, I won't argue that, but I'm a lot more More on stackoverflow.com

HTML defines what content is on a webpage. CSS makes the content look pretty. Javascript makes the content do stuff. More on reddit.com

There's no real right or wrong but what I found helpful was to follow the same order for building a webpage: - Start with HTML to get your webpage structure in - Add CSS to get your layout/styling updated - Learn some basic JS to add some interactions to a page Once you have the HTML/CSS basics, you can spend more time on JS and then loop back to improving your HTML/CSS knowledge for broader use cases. More on reddit.com

Like you're five? Okay then! Imagine your house. You've got bedrooms, stuff in your bedrooms, people living in the house and lots of colours and materials everywhere. HTML5 is the main backbone of the house, it controls what objects exist inside the house. CSS is what makes the house look good. It controls where these objects go. It controls what colour they are, how big they are, and really just about anything to do with their appearance. JavaScript is a little more complicated. It's something that lets the house DO things. So say you had a white microwave sitting in your kitchen. The microwave is there because HTML told it to exist. It's white and sitting in your kitchen because that's how CSS told it to appear... And finally it's able to switch on and heat things because that's what JavaScript is doing. JavaScript works with the existing HTML and CSS code and manipulates them slightly to carry out certain actions when it needs to. Finally, the last main web language, PHP. This is sort of like the "daddy" of the house. PHP starts organising the house. It clumps groups of similar typed HTML code (like say all the bedrooms) into one command. That means that when this one command is announced, suddenly a bedroom will appear. So say the daddy decides that it no longer wants 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in the house, but it wants 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Rather than going through the trouble of making it all again, he just calls out this one command. PHP, unlike the other languages is all maintained behind the scenes. What you'll see is the resulting bits and bobs of HTML and CSS that you can recognise, but really it's PHP that's controlling what to show you and what to keep hidden away for later use because it isn't currently necessary. More on reddit.com