HyperText Markup Language (HTML)


Standard language Web uses for creating and recognizing hypermedia documents is HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

Web documents typically written in HTML and usually named with suffix ".html" (".htm" on systems that restrict file suffixes to 3 characters)

HTML documents -- files with formatting codes that contain information about layout (text styles, document titles, paragraphs, lists) and hyperlinks

HTML uses Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to represent hypermedia links and links to network services within documents