What is the difference between .html and .rst?
- Extension
- .html
- .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
- 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.
- 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.html
- Wikipedia
- .html on Wikipedia
- .rst on Wikipedia