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    • An Introduction to HTML

      Web developers use HTML as a markup language to create web pages. HTML is written in a plain text document using a standard QWERTY keyboard. more »

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    • What Does HTML Stand for?

      HTML is an acronym for hypertext markup language. It is a language that is used to produce documents for the World Wide Web. Using tags and attributes, HTML instructs browsers on how to display the text, hyperlinks and images on a web page. HTML pages are distributed on the web using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). more »

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    • What is an HTML Editor?

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    HTML

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    | icon
    | screenshot
    | extension .html, .htm
    | mime text/html
    | type code TEXT
    | uniform type public.html
    | owner World Wide Web Consortium & genre [[Markup language
    | container for
    | contained by
    | extended from extended to [[XHTML
    | standard
    (draft)
    }}

    HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of "tags" surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content. It can include or can load scripts in languages such as JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML processors like Web browsers; and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the appearance and layout of text and other material. The W3C, maintainer of both HTML and CSS standards, encourages the use of CSS over explicit presentational markup."deprecated">

    Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the encoding scheme used to create and format a web document.

    History of HTML
    Origins

    In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was an independent contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system,Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal." CERN (March 1989, May 1990). http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html. Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in the last part of 1990. In that year, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems engineer Robert Cailliau collaborated on a joint request for funding, but the project was not formally adopted by CERN. In his personal notesTim Berners-Lee, " read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

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