Fat code is filled with unnecessary tags and information. Fat code also tends to be illogical and messy. Let's take a comparative look at a short passage of code generated by an HTML conversion utility, and the same code as I would create it.

Here's the code from the conversion utility. The one I used is Word 97's integrated application:

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Code Prepared by a Conversion Utility

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And here's the same code as I would create it by hand. Note the cleanliness, and take a look at how "slim," or free of extraneous tags, my code is:

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