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Document Type Declaration: Standards Mode Tim Berners-Lee Cern Enquire Internet Hypertext

HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It uses tags like <h1> and </h1> to denote headings, paragraphs, lists and other structural elements. Web browsers read HTML files and display web pages, using the HTML tags to interpret and structure the content semantically. HTML allows images, interactive forms and scripts to be embedded. It provides the building blocks that make up all websites and allows for structured documents. Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML in the late 1980s and early 1990s while working at CERN, and the first specification was released in 1991.

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Document Type Declaration: Standards Mode Tim Berners-Lee Cern Enquire Internet Hypertext

HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It uses tags like <h1> and </h1> to denote headings, paragraphs, lists and other structural elements. Web browsers read HTML files and display web pages, using the HTML tags to interpret and structure the content semantically. HTML allows images, interactive forms and scripts to be embedded. It provides the building blocks that make up all websites and allows for structured documents. Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML in the late 1980s and early 1990s while working at CERN, and the first specification was released in 1991.

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HTML

HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard


markup language used to create web pages. It is written in the form of HTML
elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>). HTML tags
most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>, although some represent
empty elements and so are unpaired, for example <img>. The first tag in such a
pair is the start tag, and the second is the end tag (they are also called opening
tags and closing tags).

Web browsers can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web
pages. Browsers do not display the HTML tags and scripts, but use them to interpret
the content of the page. HTML describes the structure of a website semantically
along with cues for presentation, making it a markup language, rather than a
programming language.

HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. HTML allows images and
objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It provides a
means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text
such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. It can embed
scripts written in languages such as JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML
web pages

Web browsers can also refer to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the look and
layout of text and other material. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
maintainer of both the HTML and the CSS standards, has encouraged the use of CSS
over explicit presentational HTML since 1999.
HTML markup consists of several key components, including tags (and their attributes), characterbased data types, character references and entity references. Another important component is
the document type declaration, which triggers standards mode rendering.
In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and
prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents. In 1989,
Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. Berners-Lee specified
HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990.

The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called "HTML Tags",
first mentioned on the Internet by Berners-Lee in late 1991

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