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An acronym for Hypertext Markup Language, HTML is a language for creating color, sound, graphics, and font on web pages.  It is the building blocks for web pages.  Without HTML, webpages would not exist.  HTML, which is essentially just text files, is constantly evolving as a language.

An HTML document contains three sections: declarations, head, and body.  The declaration sits at the top of the page and contains a 'doctype' declaration.  This helps the browser interpret the page accurately by showing if it is HTML5 (the latest version) or an older version of HTML.  Sometimes people also add a second declaration that communicates to the browser what character set the server is using for storing and transmitting one's web pages information.  The Head of the document controls what the body does.  The user doesn't view the head as it sits at the top of the page between the head tags.  The Body contains most of the information that the user sees and the code for that.




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