About the Html file format
- Name
- Hypertext Markup Language File
- Extension
- .html
- Format
- Text
- Category
- Developer
- Developer
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Description
- An HTML file is a webpage coded in HTML that can be displayed in a web browser. It is used to format text, tables, images, and other content that is displayed on a webpage. HTML files are widely used on the web as most pages within static websites have an ".html" extension.
- MIME Type
- text/html
- Sample
- sample.html
- Wikipedia
- .html on Wikipedia
HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed for display in a web browser. It defines the meaning and structure of web content. Other technologies, such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), describe a web page’s appearance/presentation. Scripting languages like JavaScript can also define a web page’s functionality/behavior.
HTML elements are the basic building blocks of HTML pages. They are set off from other text in a document by tags written in angled brackets ‘<’ and ‘>.’ Tags such as <img /> and <input /> directly introduce content into the page. Tag <p> surrounds and provides information about document text and may include other tags as sub-elements. Even so, these tags are not displayed in browsers but are used to interpret the content of the page.
HTML constructs enable images and other objects, such as interactive forms, embedded into the rendered page. It provides a means of creating structured documents by denoting structural semantics for headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes, and other items.
HTML files can be delivered just like any other computer file. However, most are delivered by HTTP from a web server or by e-mail. HTTP enables the transmission of HTML documents from web servers to web browsers. However, some other information, metadata, is usually transmitted along with the document, which includes the MIME type or character encoding.
In modern browsers, the MIME-type sent with the HTML document may affect the initial document interpretation. The browser may successfully or may fail to render it depending on the MIME type used. HTML in an e-mail may have compatibility issues as it helps disguise phishing attacks, is inaccessible for blind or visually impaired people, and the message size is larger than plain text.
