{"id":306,"date":"2007-07-10T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T13:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bodhost.com\/kb\/\/web-hosting\/index.php\/2007\/07\/10\/what-is-an-html\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:04:57","slug":"what-is-an-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/kb\/what-is-an-html\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is HTML?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard language used to create and structure web pages. It forms the backbone of every website, defining content, headings, links, images, and more.<\/p>\r\n

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  1. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.<\/li>\r\n
  2. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva.<\/li>\r\n
  3. HTML authoring software language used on the Internet’s World Wide Web.\u00a0 It is used for creating World Wide Web pages.<\/li>\r\n
  4. It is a subset of Standard Generalized Mark-Up Language (SGML) for electronic publishing, the specific standard used for the World Wide Web.<\/li>\r\n
  5. An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags. The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page.<\/li>\r\n
  6. An HMTL file must have an .htm or .html file extension.<\/li>\r\n
  7. You can create an the file using a simple text editor.<\/li>\r\n
  8. It enables a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, etc, and supplementing that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects.<\/li>\r\n
  9. Developers write it using labels (known as tags) surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs.<\/li>\r\n
  10. It can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.<\/li>\r\n
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    It can define the appearance and semantics of a document and can include embedded scripting code that affects web browser behavior.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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    In practical terms, HTML uses platform-independent markup tags to define the various components of a web page.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

  13. Also, in this file format a word, a block of text, or an image can linked to another file on the Web.<\/li>\r\n
  14. With HTML you can create your document using your browser avoiding. The switching between applications and the saving and reloading of files.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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