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What is the difference between lightning page and Visualforce page?
Visualforce assists in the creation of personalised user interfaces with native hosting as a platform that includes tag-based markup language and server-side controllers. Lightning is a cutting-edge user interface framework that helps developers create immersive web applications for both mobile and desktop devices.
What language is Visualforce?
Visualforce: A markup language that lets you create custom Salesforce pages with code that looks a lot like HTML, and optionally can use a powerful combination of Apex and JavaScript.
How can I create a Visualforce page definition?
Developers can use Visualforce to create a Visualforce page definition. A page definition consists of two primary elements: Visualforce markup consists of Visualforce tags, HTML, JavaScript, or any other Web-enabled code embedded within a single tag.
How is the Order of execution of a Visualforce page determined?
To fully understand the order of execution of elements on a Visualforce page, you must first understand the page’s lifecycle –that is, how the page is created and destroyed during the course of a user session. The lifecycle of a page is determined not just by the content of the page, but also by how the page was requested.
What happens when you click save on a Visualforce page?
For example, if you use the standard Accounts controller, clicking a Save button in a Visualforce page results in the same behavior as clicking Save on a standard Account edit page. If you use a standard controller on a page and the user doesn’t have access to the object, the page will display an insufficient privileges error message.
How to create a Visualforce page using APEX tags?
Use the Developer Console in your Trailhead Playground to create a new Visualforce page using Lightning Design System apex tags. In your playground, click Setup and select Developer Console. In Developer Console, select File > New > Visualforce Page. Name the page ContactForm and then click OK.