What is the difference between .htm and .rst?
- Extension
- .htm
- .rst
- Format
- Text
- Text
- Category
- Developer
- Document
- Developer
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- The file type rst (or reStructuredText File) was created by the Python Software Foundation.
- Description
- Commonly used by web browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer to show format text and images in an HTML web page. In plain text format, they contain markup code.
- Primarily created for Python, RST is a text file that uses reStructuredText markup language for in-line program documentation. It can also be used to develop standalone documents and simple web pages.
- MIME Type
- text/html
- text/x-rst
- Sample
- sample.htm
- Wikipedia
- .htm on Wikipedia
- .rst on Wikipedia