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This blog is primarily related to SAS programming. However, there are times when we need to expand our horizons to topics that are tangentially related to SAS. One of those items for me is to better understand and implement HTML and CSS as it relates to using SAS stored processes.

While SAS does supply a built in prompting framework to create interfaces, it is very limiting and inflexible. Of course, the way around this is to roll your own via HTML, CSS and JavaScript as needed. If you utilize the _WEBOUT stream destination in a file statement you can create whatever you like.

So the question becomes, how do you learn HTML and CSS to get started? I live near a very nice and respected community college and they offer a course on HTML/CSS that is 40 hours of classroom material. The cost for this course is $1,199.00 which is not exactly cheap, but may be in contrast to that offered at a major university.

As Mick Jagger so eloquently put it in the song Street Fighting Man, "Well, then what can a poor boy do Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band 'Cause in sleepy London town There's no place for a street fighting man No Hey!".

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