HTML(Hypertext+Markup+Language)

HTML Origin: In 1980, physicist [|Tim Berners-Lee], who was an independent contractor at [|CERN], proposed and prototyped [|ENQUIRE], a system for [|CERN] researchers to use and share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems engineer [|Robert Cailliau] each submitted separate proposals for an [|Internet]-based [|hypertext] system providing similar functionality. The following year, they collaborated on a joint proposal, the WorldWideWeb (W3) project,[|[1]] which was accepted by CERN. ([|Wikipedia])
 * Definition: HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document. It is the standard protocol for formatting and displaying documents on the World Wide Web. (Source [|Dictionary.com]) ||

Short for //**H**yper**T**ext **M**arkup **L**anguage,// the authoring [|language] used to create [|documents] on the [|World Wide Web]. HTML is similar to [|SGML], although it is not a strict subset. HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web [|document] by using a variety of [|tags] and [|attributes]. The correct structure for an [|HTML document] starts with (enter here what document is about) and ends with . All the information you'd like to include in your Web page fits in between the  and  tags. There are hundreds of other tags used to format and layout the information in a Web page. Tags are also used to specify hypertext links. These allow Web developers to direct [|users] to other Web pages with only a click of the mouse on either an image or word(s). ( sited: [])

The [|World Wide Web] is composed primarily of HTML documents transmitted from [|Web servers] to Web browsers using the [|Hypertext Transfer Protocol] (HTTP). However, HTTP is used to serve images, sound, and other content in addition to HTML. To allow the Web browser to know how to handle each document it receives, other information is transmitted along with the document. This [|metadata] usually includes the [|MIME] type (e.g. or ) and the character encoding (see [|Character encodings in HTML]). ([|Wikipedia])

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HTML Documents = Web Pages
The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page:
 * HTML documents **describe web pages**
 * HTML documents **contain HTML tags** and plain text
 * HTML documents are also **called web pages**

My First Heading

My first paragraph

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Example Explained
(Source: [|w3schools])
 * The text between and describes the web page
 * The text between and is the visible page content
 * The text between and is displayed as a heading
 * The text between and is displayed as a paragraph