HTML

According to Wikipedia, the meaning of HTML is HyperText Markup Language. It is the predominant markup language of Web pages.  It provides a means to describe the structure of text – based information in a document (by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on) and to supplement that text with interactive forms, images, and a large number of different kinds of objects. HTML is written in the form of 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, for exmple, JavaScript, which can affect the behavior of Web browsers and other HTML processors.

The HTML is one of the most well-known examples of a markup language in the use of nowadays. The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is also one of the most used language in the World Wide Web. HTML follows some of the markup conventions used in the industry of publicity in the communication of essays and work which are printed among authors, editors, and printers.

Another definition of HTML, in these case according to the webpage W3C, is that HTML is called lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the WWW. It is a non – proprietary format based upon SGML, and it can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text writers and printers.

 

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