HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language 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.

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HTML is the standard language used to create web pages, defining what content appears on a website and how that content is organized. It works alongside other technologies like CSS (for styling) and JavaScript (for interactive features) to build the complete web experience you see in your browser.

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Key facts

File format.name: HTML
File format.icon: HTML5 logo and wordmark.svg
File format.icon_size: 150px
File format._noextcode: on
File format.mime: text/html
File format.type code: TEXT
File format.uniform type: public.html
File format.latest release version: Living Standard
File format.genre: Document file format
File format.container for: HTML elements
File format.contained by: Web browser
File format.extended from: SGML
File format.extended to: XHTML
File format.open: Yes
File format.iconcaption: Official logo of HTML5

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Described at

What is HTML

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HTML CSS JAVASCRIPT SQL PYTHON JAVA PHP W3.CSS C C++ C HOW TO BOOTSTRAP REACT MYSQL JQUERY EXCEL XML DJANGO NUMPY PANDAS NODEJS DSA TYPESCRIPT ANGULAR ANGULARJS GIT POSTGRESQL MONGODB ASP AI R GO KOTLIN SWIFT SASS VUE GEN AI SCIPY AWS CYBERSECURITY DATA SCIENCE INTRO TO PROGRAMMING INTRO TO HTML & CSS BASH RUST TOOLS ) Note: Only the content inside the section (the white area above) is displayed in a browser. For web development and programming, the most important attributes are id and class. These attributes are often used to address program based web page manipulations.

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Source code

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We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all. Please read and respect the WHATWG Code of Conduct. We appreciate all contributions, see the guidelines for contributing for details, including information on how to build HTML output from the source file so you can preview your changes locally.

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Wikidata facts

Official website: html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage
Image: HTML.svg

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Stack Exchange tag: gamedev.stackexchange.com/tags/html
Commons category: HTML
Commons gallery: HTML
file extension: html
media type: text/html
publication date: 1993-00-00
inception: 1989-00-00
issue tracker URL: github.com/whatwg/html/issues
source code repository URL: github.com/w3c/html
short name: HTML
social media followers: 44064
P8168: David I
described at URL: www.w3schools.com/whatis/whatis_html.asp

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Article

38 sections

Contents

History
Development
HTML version timeline
HTML 2
HTML 3
HTML 4
HTML 5
HTML draft version timeline
XHTML versions
Transition of HTML publication to WHATWG
Markup
Elements
Element examples
Headings
Line breaks
Links
Inputs
Attributes
Character and entity references
Data types
Document type declaration
Semantic HTML
Delivery
HTTP
HTML e-mail
Naming conventions
HTML Application
HTML4 variations
SGML-based versus XML-based HTML
Transitional versus strict
Frameset versus transitional
Summary of specification versions
WHATWG HTML versus HTML5
WYSIWYG editors
See also
Notes
References
External links

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.