Hypertext Markup Language (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
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
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