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HTML, short
for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup
language for web pages. 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 browsers 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). |
