PaintPaint aka rasterization is the step where the browser fills in the actual pixels for every element in the layout tree, translating boxes and their computed styles (colors, borders, shadows, text) intoSep 4, 2026·2 min read
Render TreeIt is a combined representation of Document Object Model (DOM) and CSS Object Model (CSSOM) where DOM nodes and CSS rules are matched together. Browser parses HTML document and constructs a DOM tree where each element represents a node in the DOM tr...Jan 20, 2024·3 min read
ParsingThe parsing stage involves taking the raw HTML & CSS code received from the server and converting it into a structured document object model (DOM) that the browser can understand and render onto the screen. HTML Parsing Tokenization The browser rea...Jan 13, 2024·4 min read