What is a HTML code?

Answer 1

It's a basic way of setting up web pages
You have too have tags and closing tags for it to work.
Example







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I took a web authoring class at my school to learn this

Answer 2

HTML "code" is just a way of tagging text that matches the HTML standard. It is what describes the text in a way that a browser can display it the way you want.

For example the tag

Answer 3

HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the standard language used to write web pages, and some simple programs. HTML has many versions, Xhtml, Dhtml, etc. All in all they just have differnet features, some forms of html can do things that others cant. You can see what html looks like if you right click on a webpage, then click on View Source, which is about half way down.

Answer 4

First of all, anyone who says HTML is a "programming language" doesn't know what they are talking about. HTML is NOT a programming language. HTML is markup code or meta-data - data about data. The text is the data. The HTML tags are meta-data, data that describes the data. HTML files do not execute. They are conceptually no different from .doc or .txt files. HTML files are parsed just like other data files. There other of types of markup codes like RTF and XML.

HTML is just a standard markup that an international organization agreed upon. You can make-up your own markup language for a specific purpose like Wikipedia did. A parser and interpreter converts the "codes" (the meta-data") into something that is displayed on the screen.

For example, when the HTML interpreter sees Castle instead of writing about "bold" it changes the font for Castle from plain to bold. You could wite an HTML interpreter that made things wrapped in blue if really wanted to.

The big difference between HTML and a Word file (.doc) is that the meta-data codes are also in plain text, not in binary code like in a .doc file. If you open a Word file in a text editor who will see a bunch of gibberish - that's the meta-data about the Word doc. Binary values like -767 don't translate to a character on the screen so they just look like garbage.

Answer 5

In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. HTML is used to structure information — denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists and so on — and can be used to describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document. HTML's grammar structure is the HTML DTD that was created using SGML syntax.

Originally defined by Tim Berners-Lee and further developed by the IETF, HTML is now an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000). Later HTML specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Early versions of HTML were defined with looser syntactic rules which helped its adoption by those unfamiliar with web publishing. Web browsers commonly made assumptions about intent and proceeded with rendering of the page. Over time, the trend in the official standards has been to create an increasingly strict language syntax; however, browsers still continue to render pages that are far from valid HTML.

XHTML, which applies the stricter rules of XML to HTML to make it easier to process and maintain, is the W3C's successor to HTML. As such, many consider XHTML to be the "current version" of HTML, but it is a separate, parallel standard; the W3C continues to recommend the use of either XHTML 1.1, XHTML 1.0, or HTML 4.01 for web publishing.

Answer 6

HTML is the language (tags) used to make web pages. Stands for HyperText Markup Language.

Answer 7

if you are referring to myspace html codes they are small snippets of code you use to fancy up your profile and blog. these are rather difficult to use if you don't have a basic working knowledge of html and cascading style sheets.

to get them to work correctly you have to be able to make minor adjustments to them.

Answer 8

A very simple programing language used on the internet.
For example:
This text would be red

Answer 9

It is my understanding that it is a computer language and can be used for making web pages and other things on the net. I do not know more than that. I am not too computer literate.

Answer 10

a code that every website is made up of.