What is HTML, and where can I find a guide for creating HTML documents?

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the formatting language for a hypertext or hypermedia document, viewable with a web browser such as Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, or Lynx. HTML documents are plain ASCII text and can be created with a text editor, but they contain formatting codes and links to other documents and media (including images and sounds) which can be followed using the web browser.

For help getting started with HTML, see webmonkey's Make an HTML Document page.

For a complete index of all HTML elements and attributes, see the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) pages on HTML elements and HTML attributes.

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