Rendering engine - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms 编辑

A rendering engine is software that draws text and images on the screen. The engine draws structured text from a document (often HTML), and formats it properly based on the given style declarations (often given in CSS). Examples of layout engines: Blink, Gecko, EdgeHTML, WebKit.

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General knowledge

• Web browser engine on Wikipedia

Technical reference

• Gecko documentation
• Venkatraman.R - Behind Browsers (Part 1, Basics)