Filename extension | .html, .htm |
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Internet media type | text/html |
Type code | TEXT |
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | public.html |
Developed by | World Wide Web Consortium & WHATWG |
Type of format | Markup language |
Extended from | SGML |
Extended to | XHTML |
Standard | ISO/IEC 15445 W3C HTML 4.01 W3C HTML 5 (draft) |
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages. It was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.[1] Webpages can include writing, links, pictures, and even sound and video. HTML tells web browsers what webpages should look like. HTML also adds meta information to webpages. Meta information is information about a webpage e.g., the name of the person who created the page. Web browsers usually do not show meta information.
HTML is often used with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript. CSS is used to change the way HTML looks. JavaScript tells websites how to behave. It can also change HTML and CSS.
HTML is made by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There are many versions of HTML. As of September 2018, the current standard of HTML is called HTML 5 and is specifically at version 5.2.