title: React js: Why is the html not rendering?
body: <p>I have tried to run this code in a web browser, however it displays a blank page. Can you explain why the html does not render when opened in a web browser? Where am I going wrong? thanks</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>    &lt;DOCTYPE! html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
   &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
    &lt;script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.13.3/react.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;!-- react library --&gt;
       &lt;script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/0.13.3/JSXTransformer.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;!-- special type of javascript syntax--&gt;
       &lt;script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;!-- jquery library --&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;My react page&lt;/title&gt;
   &lt;/head&gt;
  
   &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;div id="content"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
    
    &lt;script type="text/jsx"&gt;
     
     var myComponent = React.createClass({
      //component classes must have a render function that returns some HTML
      render: function() {
       return(
        &lt;h2&gt;This is a core component&lt;/h2&gt;
       );
      }
     });
  
     React.render(&lt;myComponent /&gt;, document.getElementById('content'));
    &lt;/script&gt;
    
   &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;</code></pre>
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