HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a Web page. The markup tells the Web browser how to display text and images. Each individual markup code is referred to as an element or tag. Some elements come in pairs that indicate when some display effect is to begin and when it is to end.
HTML is a formal Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is generally adhered to by the major browsers, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The current version of HTML is HTML 4.0. However, both Internet Explorer and Netscape implement some features differently and provide non-standard extensions. Web developers using the more advanced features of HTML 4.0 might need to design pages for both browsers and send out the appropriate version to each user. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is a significant features in HTML 4.0. What is sometimes referred to as HTML 5.0 is an extensible form of HTML called Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML).
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