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HTML
(HyperText Markup Language)

.html
Filename
extension
.htm

Internet
text/html
media type
Type code TEXT
Developed by W3C & WHATWG
Initial release 1993; 24 years ago
5.0 / 5.1 (working draft)
Latest release
(28 October 2014; 2 years ago)
Type of format Document file format
Extended from SGML
Extended to XHTML
Standard
ISO/IEC 15445

W3C HTML5
 HTML Living Standard

W3C HTML 5.1

Open format? Yes

www.w3.org/html/
Website
whatwg.org

HTML

HTML

Dynamic HTML

HTML5

o audio

o canvas

o video

XHTML

o Basic

o Mobile Profile

o C-HTML

HTML element

o span and div

HTML attribute

HTML frame

HTML editor
 Character encodings

o Unicode

Language code

Document Object Model

Browser Object Model

Style sheets

o CSS

Font family

Web colors

HTML scripting

JavaScript

o WebGL

o WebCL

W3C

o Validator

WHATWG

Quirks mode

Web storage

Web browser (layout) engine

Comparisons

Document markup languages

 Web browsers

HTML

Non-standard HTML

HTML5

o canvas

o media)

XHTML

o 1.1

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language 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.[1] Web browsers receive HTML
documents from a webserver 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. Tags such as <img /> and <input /> introduce content
into the page directly. Others such as <p>...</p> surround and provide information about
document text and may include other tags as sub-elements. 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 affect
the behavior and content of web pages. Inclusion of CSS defines the look and layout of
content. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), maintainer of both the HTML and the
CSS standards, has encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since
1997.[2]