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The response we return from a view function is not limited to plain text or data. It can also return HTML to be rendered on a webpage:

@app.route('/')
def home():
    return '<h1>Hello, World!</h1>'

We can use triple quotes to contain multi-line code:

@app.route('/')
@app.route('/home')
def home():
    return '''
    <h1>Hello, World!</h1>
    <p>My first paragraph.</p>
    <a href="https://www.codecademy.com">CODECADEMY</a>
    '''

Instructions

Update your home() function to return Hello, World! as a <h1> heading.

Run app.py and view your page at http://localhost:5000/ in the browser.

Now, update reporter() to return Reporter Bio as a <h2> heading.

Navigate to http://localhost:5000/reporter in the browser.

Let’s add another tag to the HTML in reporter()! After the <h2> heading, add an <a> tag with the text Return to home page that links back to http://localhost:5000/. To have the code run properly in the learning environment, use just the relative path "/" as the href attribute.

Run the app and try clicking on the link you created!

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