====== HTML ======

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===== Definition =====

**HTML** is an acronym for //**H**yper**t**ext **M**arkup **L**anguage// and is a text-based markup language used to create documents for the web. HTML is used to create a structure for the content and [[CSS]] to define the style of the content. Additionally, HTML documents contain metadata (e.g. the page's language).
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===== Use =====

[[browser|Browsers]] interpret HTML documents and display its content accordingly (e.g. as text or image).

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===== Development =====

HTML is developed by the [[w3c|W3C]] and the WHATWG.