HTML

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About

HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is a computer language for generating formatted text with images and hypertext links.<hide>

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Pages

• /tag: eventual list of tags
• /version: (to be written) version index, with summary of changes
  • 5: HTML5 now replicates much of the functionality of the proprietary Adobe Flash plug-in
• HTML entity: list of character codes

Related

• CSS
• DHTML
• JavaScript
• web design
• web development

Links

Official

• HTML Elements on the w3.org wiki (includes latest)

General Reference

• Wikipedia

Reference / Tutorial

• HTML Dog: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• HTML Help: older site, covers CSS and HTML up to v4
• 2019-06-25 HTML can do that?: live examples showing source code. Some use JavaScript, though.
• 2013-04-20 How to make a real-time in-browser editor with the HTML5′s contenteditable attribute

Tools

• Real-time HTML editor

Opinion

• 2006-04-21 HTML Is Broken at HypertWiki
• 2003 The Markup Wars by Jamie Zawinski