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HTML

A short explanation of HTML in our glossary

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a text-based markup language that lets you structure the contents of a website using so-called "tags".

The text of a website is written, structured and formatted in an HTML file. A simple website usually consists of several interlinked HTML documents. Content management systems such as WordPress or Typo3 are used these days so that HTML files no longer have to be written by hand.