HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than signs (>). HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.
HTML is also often used to refer to content of the MIME type text/html or even more broadly as a generic term for HTML whether in its XML-descended form (such as XHTML 1.0 and later) or its form descended directly from SGML (such as HTML 4.01 and earlier).
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In a nut shell, it is the foundation for building websites. These days, developers and designers are gearing themselves more towards XHTML, which is a more up-to-date version of HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/external/xhtml/
2007-08-17 07:46:18
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answered by Dirty Randy 6
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HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than signs (>). HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.
2007-08-17 14:48:58
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answered by mo 3
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Hyper Text Markup Language. The original name for what we today call a "link" was a "hypertext". It is a text language that allows links to other documents, web sites, etc.
It was the original language developed for web sites. Made possible the creation of the Internet. Is still used today for developing simple web sites.
2007-08-17 14:51:03
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answered by dewcoons 7
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Hypertext Markup Language.
it is computer language that is used to make web sites and such. it can be written in notepad if you know the correct syntax of the language. if you click on view in the tool bar and click source you can see the html of that webpage.
2007-08-17 14:46:23
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answered by CraZy 4
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is basically a text file that sends command to internet explorer to display certain things certain ways. Each command starts and end (forgive my coding IM a network guy)
would tell the line to dissplay bold
again would make it stop
Here is a good website for more details
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/
2007-08-17 14:46:22
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answered by Charles 3
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hypertext markup language, used to make websites,
On a website, right click and click view source, thats HTML
2007-08-17 14:42:56
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answered by Z 6
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hypertext markup language, used to make websites
it is a type of simple or very basic of programing.
2007-08-17 14:52:16
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answered by nik 1
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