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What is HTML?
By: Adam      Created: Jul 13, 2008      Views: 5126 Tweet This Page  Post page to Facebook  Post page to Facebook

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, which is the main programming structure for web pages and browser software. When browser software accesses an HTML file it understands how to parse the document according to the file's extension.(.html - .txt - .php - .xml - .pdf - .doc - etc... ). HTML provides us a means of laying out and structuring our web pages using paragraphs, images, lists, indents, boxes, tables, colors, padding, and many more data structuring methods common to most data processing systems.

When a browser reads an HTML document it interprets exactly how to render it from the HTML tags and elements laid out in it. An HTML document is just a fancy text(.txt) file, given a diffrerent extension(.html) so browser software can communicate with it the way it needs to.

HTML documents are structured specifically for communicating with browser software, so there are also things at play in the background processes if we require them. There are different distinct sections of an HTML web page which allow it to communicate with the correct processes. For instance, browser software knows to display or render everything within the <body></body> section of a web page. There is also a <head></head> section in a proper HTML web page that is used for communicating privately to the browser software, and not the person viewing your page.

Like most every other programming language HTML uses tags. The tags wrap around your content and this is what tells the browser software how to treat that particular element and all of the content in it.

Here is a simple example to demonstrate how HTML syntax works to structure data:
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HTML
<h2>Hello World!...I am creating web documents.</h2>
<p>Paragraphs are simple to define using this p tag.</p>
<ol>
   <li>I am a list item</li>
   <li>Me too... woohoo!</li>
   <li>I am the last in the list</li>
</ol>

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Hello World!...I am creating web documents.

Paragraphs are simple to define using this p tag.

  1. I am a list item
  2. Me too... woohoo!
  3. I am the last in the list

                                   The Main Elements of an HTML Document


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