HTML

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HTML is the language in which all Web pages are (ultimately) coded. Web browsers receive an HTML file and use the markup specified in this to determine how the information in the document should be displayed on the screen. Increasingly often, PHP scripts are being used to generate the HTML, but one way or another, the final file sent to the browser for display is in HTML format.

If a Technical Communicator is required to deliver HTML documents, the chances are that they will (be asked to) use one of the mainstream packages, such as Microsoft FrontPage, or Macromedia Dreamweaver, in which they can be hidden from the HTML code itself via wysiwyg interface. However, it is always beneficial to know some basic HTML markup (at least how to apply bold, italic or underline formatting), as several on-line applications (especially Weblogs, wikis, and bulletin boards) support the use of HTML markup in input fields.

HTML is an SGML application.

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