HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the main markup
language for
creating web
pages and other
information that can be displayed in a web
browser.
HTML is written in the form
of HTML
elements consisting
of tags enclosed in angle
brackets (like <html>),
within the web page content. HTML tags most
commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>,
although some tags represent empty elements and
so are unpaired, for example <img>. The first
tag in a pair is the start tag, and the second
tag is the end tag (they are also called opening
tags and closing tags). In between these tags
web designers can add text, further tags, comments and
other types of text-based content.
The purpose of a web
browser is to
read HTML documents and compose them into
visible or audible web pages. The browser does
not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to
interpret the content of the page.
HTML elements form the
building blocks of all websites.
HTML allows images
and objects to
be embedded and can be used to create interactive
forms. It
provides a means to create structured
documents by
denoting structural semantics for
text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links,
quotes and other items. It can embed scripts written
in languages such as JavaScript which
affect the behavior of HTML web pages.
Web browsers can also refer
to Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS)
to define the look and layout of text and other
material. The W3C,
maintainer of both the HTML and the CSS
standards, encourages the use of CSS over
explicit presentational HTML.
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