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HTML Technical Specifications
| File extension | .html |
|---|---|
| File category | Document file |
| Stands for | Hypertext to Markup Language |
| Developer | World Wide Web Consortium and WHATWG |
| Overview | This extension is predominantly used to design web pages which are displayed by different browsers such as Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google; etc. Web browsers get the HTML document from a web server and in return, generate the document into multimedia web pages on a user's device. The source code can be viewed by choosing an option ‘View page source' (appears on right-click) from a web page or by using a shortcut that is ‘Ctrl + U'. In actual words, this format directs the browser on how to exhibit the words and images of a web page to the user. It may include images, audio, video and scripts as well. |
| Technical description | It helps to create a structured document where semantics are used to display text such as paragraphs, headings, hyperlinks, tables and quotes; etc. The building blocks of HTML pages are their elements which are designed by tags using angle brackets. For example, <img /> and <input /> tags help to submit content into the page, <p> tag provides information about the document text, . Apart from this, the technologies that support this format are CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript, which is a scripting language. Here is a list of few basic elements or tags. <head> for metadata, <body> defines the body of the webpage, <h1> text header for creating a text title, <p> specify a paragraph, <img> to embed an image, <ul> to indicate an unordered list with no numerical order or bullet list and <div> used to define sections or divisions. |
| Links | wikipedia.org (opens in new tab - official documentation) |