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> Standards and Specification > HyperText Markup Language
HyperText Markup Language
Abbreviation: HTML
Scope: Simple markup language for creating the platform independent hypertext documents
Topic: Meta Language
Standard body: ISO
Keywords: markup languages, SGML
Use in CLARIN: fully recommended
Description:

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the most widely used markup language. It is used to create and design web pages and other information which can be displayed in a web browser. HTML is an International standard and W3C specification.

Creating a document with the help of HTML is relatively easy. Each document contains HTML tags, attributes and a plain text. The HTML tags define the structure and the layout of an HTML document. An HTML document consists of two sections <head> and <body>. All information about the document (e.g. title, styles, and meta information) is located in the head section. The <body> tag defines the body section of the document and includes all the contents of a HTML document such as text, hyperlinks, images, tables, lists, etc.

There is a large number of tags, which can be used to format and layout the information in a Web page. The HTML tags are used to interpret the content of the page. The created HTML document can be read and displayed as web pages by a web browser such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.

Reference(s): Example_HTML.html
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Version Title: Hypertext Markup Language
Abbreviation: HTML 1.0
Version Number: 1.0
Release Date: 1993
Editor:
  1. Tim Berners-Lee
  2. Daniel Connolly
URL(s): http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt
Version Title: HTML Specification (RFC 1866)
Abbreviation: HTML 2.0
Version Number: 2.0
Release Date: 1995
Editor:
  1. Tim Berners-Lee
  2. Daniel Connolly
URL(s): http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-pubtext.html
Version Title: HTML Reference Specification
Abbreviation: HTML 3.2
Version Number: 3.2
Status: W3C Recommendation
Release Date: 1997-01-14
Editor:
  1. Dave Raggett
Version Title: HTML Specification
Abbreviation: HTML 4.0
Version Number: 4.0
Status: W3C Recommendation
Release Date: 1998-04-24
Editor:
  1. Dave Raggett
  2. Arnaud Le Hors
  3. Ian Jacobs
URL(s): http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/
Version Title: Information technology — Document description and processing languages — HyperText Markup Language
Abbreviation: HTML-ISO
Version Number: ISO/IEC 15445:2000
Status: International Standard
Release Date: 2012-07-04
Editor:
  1. ISO(IEC)/JTC 1/SC 34
Version Title: HTML Specification
Abbreviation: HTML 4.01
Version Number: 4.01
Status: W3C Recommendation
Release Date: 1999-12-24
Editor:
  1. Dave Raggett
  2. Arnaud Le Hors
  3. Ian Jacobs
URL(s): http://www.w3.org/TR/html401
Related Standard(s):
Used in CLARIN centre(s):
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