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HTML
(HyperText Markup Language)

The official logo of the latest version, HTML5[1]

 .html
Filename extension
 .htm

Internet media type text/html

Type code TEXT

Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) public.html

Developed by WHATWG

Initial release 1993; 29 years ago

Latest release Living Standard

2022

Type of format Document file format

Container for HTML elements

Contained by Web browser

Extended from SGML

Extended to XHTML

Open format? Yes

Website html.spec.whatwg.org

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 
o alt attribute
 HTML frame
 HTML editor
 Character encodings 
o named characters
o Unicode
 Language code
 Document Object Model
 Browser Object Model
 Style sheets 
o CSS
 Font family
 Web colors
 JavaScript 
o WebGL
o WebCL
 W3C 
o Validator
 WHATWG
 Quirks mode
 Web storage
 Rendering engine

Comparisons
 Document markup languages
 Comparison of browser engines

 v
 t
 e

The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents

designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such
as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.
Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the
documents 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. HTML
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 />  directly introduce
content into the page. Other tags such as  <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 affects the
behavior and content of web pages. Inclusion of CSS defines the look and layout of content.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former maintainer of the HTML and current maintainer
of the CSS standards, has encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since
1997.[2] A form of HTML, known as HTML5, is used to display video and audio, primarily using
the  <canvas>  element, in collaboration with javascript.

Contents

 1History
o 1.1Development
o 1.2HTML versions timeline
 1.2.1HTML 2
 1.2.2HTML 3
 1.2.3HTML 4
 1.2.4HTML 5
o 1.3HTML draft version timeline
 1.3.1XHTML versions
o 1.4Transition of HTML Publication to WHATWG
 2Markup
o2.1Elements
 2.1.1Element examples
 2.1.1.1Headings
 2.1.2Attributes
o 2.2Character and entity references
o 2.3Data types
o 2.4Document type declaration
 3Semantic HTML
 4Delivery
o 4.1HTTP
o 4.2HTML e-mail
o 4.3Naming conventions
o 4.4HTML Application
 5HTML4 variations
o 5.1SGML-based versus XML-based HTML
o 5.2Transitional versus strict
o 5.3Frameset versus transitional
o 5.4Summary of specification versions
 6WHATWG HTML versus HTML5
 7WYSIWYG editors
 8See also
 9References
 10External links