HTML

HTML is a text markup language created in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee.

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript it forms a triad of cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web. Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render them into multimedia web pages. Read more on Wikipedia...

HTML Wikipedia page
HTML docs
HTML specs
HTML mailing list
There are at least 12,648,584 HTML repos on GitHub
HTML first developed in Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
PLDB estimates there are currently 70k job openings for HTML programmers.
file extensions for HTML include html, hta, htm, htmlhl, inc, xht, xhtml and xslt
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 492k users using HTML in 778k repos on GitHub
Check out the 2,347 HTML meetup groups on Meetup.com.
There are 40,286 members in the HTML subreddit
In the 2021 StackOverflow developer survey HTML programmers reported a median salary of $52,980. 55% of respondents reported using HTML. 46,259 programmers reported using HTML, and 29,353 said they wanted to use it
HTML on HOPL
ANTLR grammar for HTML
HTML LSP implementation
Monaco package for syntax highlighting HTML
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for HTML
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for HTML
Indeed.com has 14,472 matches for "html developer".
See also: (11 related languages)SGML, CSS, JavaScript, WebGL, DTD, RFC, XML, Unicode, UTF-8, HTTP, FAT

Example from hello-world:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Hello World</h1>
</body>
</html>

Example from the Hello World Collection:

<HTML>
<!-- Hello World in HTML -->
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello World!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello World!
</BODY>
</HTML>

Example from Linguist:

</UL>
<P><A HREF="devices.html">Supported Targets</A></P>
</BODY>
</HEAD>

Example from Wikipedia:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Case Insensitive Identifiers	✓
MultiLine Comments	✓
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X
Ternary operators	X
Conditionals	X
Line Comments	X
Macros	X
File Imports	X
Enums	X
Operators	X

HTML - Text markup language

Language features