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Defines the content, structure, and layout of a web page.

Basic HTML Tags: A set of predefined tags that structure information used to create a website.
HTML Elements & Attributes: Tags that are used to define the structure of a webpage such as headers, paragraphs, images, and links, along with their respective attributes and values.
Image and Multimedia: The tag used to represent images and how to integrate videos, sound files, and other multimedia content into an HTML document.
Links and Navigation: The language used by browsers to navigate from one webpage to another.
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets - A stylesheet language used to decorate webpages using predefined styles.
Mobile Compatibility and Responsive Design: Creating a web design that is responsive to different devices.
Forms: A form tag is used to create forms such as login pages, registration forms, surveys, and so on.
Semantic Markup: The use of HTML markup to add meaning and structure to content on web pages. The use of semantic markup is the key to designing user-friendly web pages.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization): The process of optimizing web pages to rank higher in search engine results.
Accessibility: Optimizing web pages for users who have disabilities.
HTML4: This version of HTML is the earlier version which still used the traditional XHTML syntax but is no longer recommended for use.
XHTML: This is the version of HTML that was meant to be stricter and cleaner than HTML. It is now outdated and no longer recommended for use.
HTML5: The current and most commonly used version of HTML. HTML5 comes with many new features that allow developers to create more complex and interactive websites.
XML: This is not technically a version of HTML, but it is widely used in web development. XML is a markup language that is similar to HTML, but it is stricter and designed for storing and transporting data.
HTML+, HTML-: These are not versions of HTML but were experimental versions of HTML.
HTML 5.1, HTML 5.2: They are improved versions of HTML5 introducing new features and elements to make the web development process even easier.
- "The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser."
- "It defines the meaning and structure of web content."
- "It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript."
- "Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages."
- "HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for its appearance."
- "HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages."
- "With HTML constructs, images and other objects such as interactive forms may be embedded into the rendered page."
- "HTML provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes, and other items."
- "HTML elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets."
- "Tags such as and directly introduce content into the page."
- "Other tags such as

and

surround and provide information about document text and may include sub-element tags."
- "Browsers do not display the HTML tags but use them to interpret the content of the page."
- "HTML can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript, which affects the behavior and content of web pages."
- "The inclusion of CSS defines the look and layout of content."
- "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former maintainer of the HTML and current maintainer of the CSS standards, has encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since 1997."
- "A form of HTML, known as HTML5, is used to display video and audio, primarily using the element, together with JavaScript."
- "A form of HTML, known as HTML5, is used to display video and audio, primarily using the element, together with JavaScript."
- "A form of HTML, known as HTML5, is used to display video and audio, primarily using the element, together with JavaScript."
- "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former maintainer of the HTML and current maintainer of the CSS standards."
- "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since 1997."