What is Html: Definition and 75 Discussions

The HyperText Markup Language, or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be 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 the appearance of the document.
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 <img /> and <input /> directly introduce content into the page. Other tags such as <p> surround and provide information about document text and may include other tags as sub-elements. 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. 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.

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  1. Sam Groves

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    Hi.I am building up a site for Norway.So far I have this code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Norway's Home Page</title> </head> <body> <p style="font-size:18;font-family:Verdana"> Norway (Bokmål: Norge, Nynorsk: Noreg), formally the Kingdom of...
  2. Bob Walance

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    My webpage project has a button labeled 'Harmonics' with a mouse-click event. I want an image to be hidden as soon as the button is clicked, however this doesn't happen. Here's a snippet of the html. It doesn't matter what order the two Javascript functions are called. The 'hidden' attribute...
  3. M

    Should users confirm their account deletion before it is processed?

    Hey! 😊 I have written a code in Python for a server to search for movies. At the site for the user I have added at the html template the options to change the password and to delete the account. For this do I have to write a separate html or a separate endpoint for these ones or can I write...
  4. M

    Python - HTML : Isn't this a dictionary ?

    Hey! 😊 I have written a program in Python where API calls to the server to get currency exchanges. Now I want to add a part for the user, i.e. with html. The endpoint is : @route_rates.route("/all/") def get_all(): return render_template("currency.html", my_currency =...
  5. G

    Does anyone know about python flask and wtf forms?....

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  6. evinda

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  7. Y

    Any suggestion of a good self starter book on HTML?

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  8. M

    Help finding some html to pdf converters please

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  9. topsquark

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  10. YoungPhysicist

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  11. YoungPhysicist

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  12. YoungPhysicist

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  13. W

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  14. D

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  15. Dave Ritche

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  16. kolleamm

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  17. kolleamm

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  18. A

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  19. Kaura

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  20. M

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  23. C

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  24. Dave Ritche

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  25. C

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  26. lonely_nucleus

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  27. R

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  28. A

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  29. T

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  31. J

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  32. Y

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  33. J

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  34. N

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  35. D

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  36. A

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  37. B

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  38. O

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  39. C

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  40. M

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  41. A

    Why html data has to be send to a different server to process?

    Since HTML is a markup language it cannot process data. So we have to send the data somewhere to produce some output. But why do we need to send it to a different server where data is processed using PHP language? Why can't we just have an external c or c++ program and have a way to send the...
  42. N

    Parsing HTML and Searching Text

    I need to parse HTML and search for some text. For example, a text containing XXX (just random input) needs to be searched in HTML. I need to parse HTML, search this XXX and get its CSS attributes. However, this XXX text can be in any HTML tags. Java/JavaScript/PHP are all available for...
  43. E

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    Hello everybody; I need your help in making an HTML page used to solve engineering examples with equations and many tables will be used (maybe I should use Java Scripts).. the inputs will differ due to the user. Please help me ,,
  44. R

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    I'm trying to fix up my dads website but the old version seems to have been made using some sort of WYSIWYG editor so the code is completely senseless and complicated. So I think it would be quicker to start and just re make the website from the ground up but I haven't got the time to fiddle...
  45. M

    Free HTML Web Hosting: Find A Multipage Host

    hi.. i just taught myself HTML and wanted to show one of my friends. The problem is, the files are on my computer (how do i use FTP?!) and is there anyway i can find a free, multipage web hoster that you can add your own html code?
  46. Loren Booda

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  47. MartinJH

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    I realize HTML isn't strictly a 'coding language' or so I've heard. I have a good friend who has a site he needs to prevent users from 'right clicking and copy'. Its a guitar tab site and he has spent relentless hours transcribing a band whos songs are far from easy. So to prevent, to a certain...
  48. T

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    I am trying to learn these web designing stuff on my own and am currently using http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp for HTML learning... and though i am well aware of the basics ..i need to know much in depth. So do you guys have any good 'n' free online resources to learn HTML +...
  49. G

    New improved html table of the nuclides

    I've created a new html table of the nuclides that allows you to only show even, odd or every 4th nuclide making it easier to see patterns in the overall chart. See the image below. The horizontal axis can be either 'the number of neutrons' or 'the number of neutrons minus the number of...
  50. I

    What HTML tag can I use to bypass category filters on my website?

    All, I'm creating a website for my wife and i'd like to be able to make updates while at work. unfortunately our filters here won't let the site come through because of the category settings. For example, if i were to try and go to the texas lotto page, our filters would block it because the...
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