Question

What is the purpose of a Rendering Engine?

(a) Parsing objects in page

(b) Drawing all objects in page

(c) Both Parsing & Drawing all objects in page

(d) Rendering object

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This intriguing question comes from Browser Parsing and Rendering topic in portion Graphics and Rendering of JavaScript

Answer 1

Correct choice is (c) Both Parsing & Drawing all objects in page

To elaborate: It’s responsible for displaying the web page. The rendering engine parses the HTML and the CSS and displays the parsed content on the screen. A Rendering Engine is generally used for parsing and drawing all of the objects in the page.