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While building a page, what makes the browser pause parsing the HTML?

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  1. A classic script without async or defer
  2. An image tag
  3. A CSS color value

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  1. MDN: How browsers work developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Guides/How_browsers_work Checked 2026-10-11.

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