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HTML
HTMLHyperText Markup Language is the computer language the web pages are written in. You can use html to format the text and design of a web page and link to other documents. HTML is only used to show the user information and cannot be used to run programs, therefore it is not a full-fledged programming language like JAVA.
by Melissa Creech
HTML -is HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is similar to SGML, although it is not a strict subset.
HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes. The correct structure for an HTML document starts with <HTML><HEAD>(enter here what document is about)</HEAD><BODY> and ends with </BODY></HTML>. All the information you'd like to include in your Web page fits in between the <BODY> and </BODY> tags.
There are hundreds of other tags used to format and layout the information in a Web page. For instance, <P> is used to make paragraphs and <I> ... </I>is used to italicize fonts. Tags are also used to specify hypertext links. These allow Web developers to direct users to other Web pages with only a click of the mouse on either an image or word(s). For lots of resources check:
http://www.hwg.org/ or a tutorial see:
http://www.echoecho.com/html.htm
by John Owrey
HTML 
Hypertext Markup Language
HTML is the language for publishing hypertext on the World Wide Web. It is a non-proprietary format, based upon SGML and can be created and processed in a wide range of tools from simple plain text editors to sophisticated authoring tools. HTML uses tags ("<h1>" or "</h1>") to structure text into headings, paragraphs, lists, hypertext links and more.
by Paulette Sallas
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Last updated: 1 August 2000