HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of markup symbols
or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page.
The markup tells the Web browser how to display a Web page's words and
images for the user. Each individual markup code is referred to as an
element (but many people also refer to it as a tag).
Some elements come in pairs that indicate when some display effect is to
begin and when it is to end.
HTML is a formal Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
and is generally adhered to by the major browsers, Microsoft's Internet
Explorer and Netscape's Navigator, which also provide some additional
non-standard codes. The current version of HTML is HTML
4.0. However, both Internet Explorer and
Netscape implement some features differently and provide non-standard
extensions. Web developers using the more advanced features of HTML 4
may have to design pages for both browsers and send out the appropriate
version to a user. Significant features in HTML 4 are sometimes
described in general as dynamic
HTML. What is sometimes referred to as
HTML 5 is an extensible form of HTML called Extensible Hypertext Markup
Language (XHTML).
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