HTML

HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used for creating web pages and web applications. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript, it forms a triad of cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web.

Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render them into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document.

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. It 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.

History[edit | edit source]

HTML was created in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, with further larger scale implementations in 1995 by Marc Andreessen's team at Netscape Communications. It has undergone several revisions, with the current standard being HTML5.

Syntax[edit | edit source]

HTML syntax is based on a set of tags that describe the page's format and layout. Each HTML page begins with the <!DOCTYPE html> declaration, which tells the web browser about the version of HTML. The HTML document itself begins with and ends with . The visible part of the HTML document is between <body> and </body>.

HTML Elements[edit | edit source]

HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. They include headings, paragraphs, links, images, and more. Each element has a specific function and syntax.

HTML Attributes[edit | edit source]

HTML attributes provide additional information about HTML elements. They are always specified in the start tag and usually come in name/value pairs like: name="value".

HTML Versions[edit | edit source]

Since the early days of the web, there have been many versions of HTML, including HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01, XHTML, and the current version, HTML5.

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