Flash of Unstyled Content (Annoying White Flash)

Yup, I'm about to cover one of the most prominent web page styling problems ever known to man: the Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC)!

What is it? Well, there are two different ways of explaining it:

1. To the viewer, it's that annoying white flash that you see every time you view a different page on a website when the website has a background image or background color that isn't white.
2. To the web coder, it's that short moment of time during which the page is unstyled (defaulting to a blank white page) that annoys the viewers.

Let's fix it! :)

An Overview of Web Pages

Index

I have created this index due to the amount of information present in this tutorial. Feel free to skim past any sections that contain information you already know. This tutorial provides the very basic information about how web pages work in general, and near the end it starts to focus a little bit on how to extend your HTML pages with CSS and JavaScript coding.

An Overview of Web Pages
W3 Schools
HTML
CSS
Extending web page capabilities
JavaScript vs. browser plugin languages
HTML basics
Head tags
Body tags
HTML page example, with CSS and JavaScript
Conclusion