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by tdeck 1352 days ago
> Which of these two codes can you understand faster?

The first one, definitely! The first one shows the structure of the document and places the button in context. I cant actually tell that the second example is equivalent, since there's no "rest of the document" or if there is it's done by magic behind the scenes.

Edit: I don't want to come off as too harsh on this project, this example is relatively simple so it probably doesn't show off the power of programming your email templates as code.

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there you have it, the example was so good that you even got it wrong, the first one was just a Button that would be reused in other files, but with all the code you thought it was an entire document, when in the second you obviously see that it's just a button component
The first one has a <DOCTYPE> tag. When do you see that embedded within a larger document?