24 Facts About HTML 4

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HyperText Markup Language or HTML 4 is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

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HTML 4 describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document.

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HTML 4 provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items.

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HTML 4 elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets.

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HTML 4 can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript, which affects the behavior and content of web pages.

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Berners-Lee specified HTML 4 and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990.

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HTML 4 is a markup language that web browsers use to interpret and compose text, images, and other material into visual or audible web pages.

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Default characteristics for every item of HTML 4 markup are defined in the browser, and these characteristics can be altered or enhanced by the web page designer's additional use of CSS.

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However, the SGML concept of generalized markup is based on elements rather than merely print effects, with the separation of structure and markup; HTML 4 has been progressively moved in this direction with CSS.

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Since 1996, the HTML 4 specifications have been maintained, with input from commercial software vendors, by the World Wide Web Consortium .

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11.

Some HTML 4 elements are defined as empty elements and take the form.

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12.

HTML 4 headings are defined with the to tags with H1 being the highest level and H6 the least:.

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HTML 4 defines several data types for element content, such as script data and stylesheet data, and a plethora of types for attribute values, including IDs, names, URIs, numbers, units of length, languages, media descriptors, colors, character encodings, dates and times, and so on.

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HTML 4 documents are required to start with a Document Type Declaration .

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Semantic HTML 4 is a way of writing HTML 4 that emphasizes the meaning of the encoded information over its presentation .

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HTML 4 has included semantic markup from its inception, but has included presentational markup, such as, and tags.

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The majority of presentational features from previous versions of HTML 4 are no longer allowed as they lead to poorer accessibility, higher cost of site maintenance, and larger document sizes.

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World Wide Web is composed primarily of HTML 4 documents transmitted from web servers to web browsers using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol .

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The latest standards surrounding HTML 4 reflect efforts to overcome the sometimes chaotic development of the language and to create a rational foundation for building both meaningful and well-presented documents.

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In conjunction, the HTML 4 specification has slowly reined in the presentational elements.

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The XML-based specification is usually called XHTML 4 to distinguish it clearly from the more traditional definition.

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The underlying syntax of HTML 4 allows many shortcuts that XHTML 4 does not, such as elements with optional opening or closing tags, and even empty elements which must not have an end tag.

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HTML 4 defined three different versions of the language: Strict, Transitional and Frameset.

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HTML 4 Living Standard, which is developed by WHATWG, is the official version, while W3C HTML 45 is no longer separate from WHATWG.

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