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  Extension <tt>html</tt>, <tt>htm</tt>
  Mime text/html
  Type Code <tt>TEXT</tt>
  Uniform Type publichtml
  Owner World Wide Web Consortium
  Genre Markup Language
  Contained By <!-- SGML -->
  Extended To XHTML
  Standard W3C HTML 401 <br />


HTML, short for '''Hypertext Markup Language''', is the predominant Markup Language for Web Page s. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with ''interactive forms'', embedded ''images'', and other objects. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by Angle Brackets . HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and Semantics of a document, and can include embedded Scripting Language code which can affect the behavior of Web Browser s and other HTML processors.

HTML is also often used to refer to content of the MIME Type text/html or even more broadly as a generic term for HTML whether in its XML -descended form (such as XHTML 1.0 and later) or its form descended directly from SGML (such as HTML 4.01 and earlier).


BASIC FEATURES

  • Structured text web pages, with visual formatting of:

  • --- chapter and section headings,

  • --- paragraphs and text markup such as italics and bold to stress parts of text,

  • --- unnumbered and numbered lists,

  • --- tables;

  • embedding of visible raster images into the text flow;

  • links, which provide access to other web pages on the World Wide Web .


Sophisticated and dynamic documents can be created by combining HTML with presentational languages like CSS , and behavioral languages like JavaScript that give access to the DOM .


DEFINITION OF HTML

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.

# '' Hypertext '' is ordinary text that has been dressed up with extra features, such as formatting, images, multimedia, and links to other resources.
# Markup is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols. Each of the symbols used for markup in HTML is a command that tells a Browser how to display the text.


HISTORY OF HTML


Origins

In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee , who was an independent contractor at CERN , proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE , a Hypertext system for CERN researchers to use to share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems engineer Robert Cailliau each submitted separate proposals for an Internet -based Hypertext system providing similar functionality. The following year, they collaborated on a joint proposal, the WorldWideWeb (W3) project, which was accepted by CERN.


First specifications