Series

How Browsers work

In this series I will talk about the inner workings of web browsers. Each episode dives into different aspects of browsers like UI, rendering engine, data persistence and much more.

Articles in this series

Parsing

Jan 13, 20244 min read

The parsing stage involves taking the raw HTML & CSS code received from the server and converting it into a structured document object model (DOM)...

Render Tree

Jan 20, 20243 min read

It is a combined representation of Document Object Model (DOM) and CSS Object Model (CSSOM) where DOM nodes and CSS rules are matched...

Layout

Jan 27, 20242 min read

Layout aka reflow is a step where the browser calculations the position and size of each element in the document considering the styles, dimensions...