HTML Parsing in web browsers?

I’m a beginner and I’m wanderi开发者_JS百科ng for this question. Right now I’m concerned with webkit (a web browser). Here, my problem is, what I want to know, how the web browser is handling all the HTML data coming from any network. E.g. how is it getting the data and parsing that? Very specifically, I want to know about HTML Parser! If you have the code base of webkit, you can find a part that’s webcore. In webcore, there is a HTML module. As I think, this is the part of HTML parser. But it seems very tough for me to understand that code without knowing the basics. So please help me.

You would need some basic understanding on formal language definitions and compilers. Without this knowledge looking at the parser code for 1000 years is futile.

I recommend to read this book first: