what does HTML refer to?
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hypertext markup language. It's the special "code" that the WWW (web pages) uses.
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HyperText Markup Language
it's the basic programming language used to write webpages
HyperText Markup Language
it's the basic programming language used to write webpages
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser.
Hyper Text Markup Language
I believe it stands for Hypertext Markup Language
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. HTML is used to structure information — denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists and so on — and can be used to describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document. HTML's grammar structure is the HTML DTD that was created using SGML syntax.
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