About HTML

The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is an SGML application for marking up documents for inclusion in the World Wide Web. HTML allows you to:

Publish documents to the Internet in a platform independent format

Create links to related works from your document

Include graphics and multimedia data with your document

Link to non-World Wide Web information resources on the Internet

HTML was originally intended to be used for encoding document structures. While there are now many formatting and formatting-like tags, there are also numerous tags that apply to text structures like headings, paragraphs and tables.

Last updated: November 5, 1996

Acrobat Version (HTML 2.0)