Basic HTML Load: Causes and Fixes

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Dear PF.
Sometimes when I reload the PF page for updates, it reloads, I think, basic HTML. This happens also with other pages, like Gmail. Why could that be? Is it a server/browser error?
It only happens sometimes and when I reload the page again it is good.
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Ok, I was just curious what is going on. Thanks, Greg.
 
A web-page consists of two basic components, the html code and the CSS. The CSS is the styling. In very simple amateur websites, the styling is all done in HTML without CSS. When pages become extremely complicated like PF, you begin to use a separate CSS file which the HTML needs to load from a server. It's good practice o have a separate CSS file, and basically every webpage has it.

The CSS file might not have been loaded.
 
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