HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language, and is the most markup language used for the web pages creation. It’s used for describing the structure and the contain as a text, and also for complementing that text with images. HTML is written in the form of tags, surrounded by angle brackets. It can also describe the appearance of a document and include an script (for example Java-script), which can script the behaviour of web browsers and other HTML processors.
The HTML language, despite of its simplicity, is an excellent invention. It’s the most successful system of documents’ presentation of the whole history. Since www appeared, thanks to HTML, we have been able to publish and have access to some information that we couldn’t have never imagined.
After publishing HTML, in 1998 XHTML was created. Since then HTML is under the XHTML control. The main difference between them is that XHTML is a metalanguage, while HTML is simply a language.
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