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".htm" and ".html" redirect here. For other uses, see HTM.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language[a] for
documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and
structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.
HTML
Official logo of HTML5[1]
Filename extension .html
.htm
Internet media type text/html
Type code TEXT
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) [Link]
Developed by WHATWG
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C; formerly)
Initial release 1993; 32 years ago
Latest release Living Standard
Type of format Document file format
Container for HTML elements
Contained by Web browser
Extended from SGML
Extended to XHTML
Open format? Yes
Website [Link]
Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage
and render the documents into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the
structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for its
appearance.
HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages. With HTML constructs,
images and other objects such as interactive forms may be embedded into the
rendered page. HTML provides a means to create structured documents by
denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links,
quotes, and other items. HTML elements are delineated by tags, written using angle
brackets. Tags such as <img> and <input> directly introduce content into the page.
Other tags such as <p> and </p> surround and provide information about
document text and may include sub-element tags. Browsers do not display the
HTML tags, but use them to interpret the content of the page.
HTML can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript,
which affects the behavior and content of web pages. The inclusion of CSS defines
the look and layout of content. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former
maintainer of the HTML and current maintainer of the CSS standards, has
encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since 1997.[3] A form
of HTML, known as HTML5, is used to display video and audio, primarily using the
<canvas> element, together with JavaScript.
History
Markup
Semantic HTML
Delivery
HTML4 variations
WHATWG HTML versus HTML5
WYSIWYG editors
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Last edited 1 day ago by Davemck
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