Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.
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First Released SignificanceDefines the structure of nearly every page a browser renders, and its semantic clarity is what lets search engines index the web at all. 1 Connections
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Markdown is designed to "optionally convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
Built On
Direction correction: HTML was originally defined as an SGML application, not the reverse.
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Source Standard Generalized Markup Language (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: HTML
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: First appeared
1993
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
Article body, search indexing discussion
These software agents are dependent on the semantic clarity of web pages they find as they use various techniques and algorithms to read and index millions of web pages a day and provide web users with search facilities without which the World Wide Web's usefulness would be greatly reduced.
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Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced By: SGML, Derivatives, HTML subsectionQuote, Influenced By: SGML, Derivatives, HTML subsection
While HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) was developed partially independently and in parallel with SGML, its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, intended it to be an application of SGML.
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