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Revision as of 03:52, August 23, 2007
HTML or Hypertext Markup Language is a system of tags mostly used to create, design and format webpages. A Internet Browser will take the HTML and other scripting language, and create a graphical page. Unlike some programming languages, HTML is viewable by the user. HTML is a base language, accompanied or created dynamically by numerous other scripting languages such as CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, Perl, and many more.
The HTML standard is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium.
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. This is how web pages get structure, appearance and interactivity beyond being a string of plain words. [1]
Special codes
You can include a comment in your HTML code but prevent it from displaying or having any effect, by enclosing it in strange brackets like this:
<!-- This is a comment. -->
Note that the opening and closing codes are not symmetrical. If you end it with --!> by mistake, it won't really end, and everything else after that on the page will be hidden.
See also
- HTML table formatting
- CSS - Cascading Style
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