25 Facts About HTML 401

1.

HyperText Markup Language or HTML 401 is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

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2.

HTML 401 describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document.

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3.

HTML 401 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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4.

HTML 401 elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets.

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5.

HTML 401 can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript, which affects the behavior and content of web pages.

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6.

Berners-Lee specified HTML 401 and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990.

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7.

HTML 401 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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8.

Default characteristics for every item of HTML 401 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 401 has been progressively moved in this direction with CSS.

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10.

Since 1996, the HTML 401 specifications have been maintained, with input from commercial software vendors, by the World Wide Web Consortium .

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11.

XHTML 401 is a separate language that began as a reformulation of HTML 401 4.

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12.

Some HTML 401 elements are defined as empty elements and take the form.

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13.

HTML 401 headings are defined with the to tags with H1 being the highest level and H6 the least:.

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14.

HTML 401 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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15.

HTML 401 documents are required to start with a Document Type Declaration .

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16.

Semantic HTML 401 is a way of writing HTML 401 that emphasizes the meaning of the encoded information over its presentation .

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17.

HTML 401 has included semantic markup from its inception, but has included presentational markup, such as, and tags.

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18.

The majority of presentational features from previous versions of HTML 401 are no longer allowed as they lead to poorer accessibility, higher cost of site maintenance, and larger document sizes.

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19.

World Wide Web is composed primarily of HTML 401 documents transmitted from web servers to web browsers using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol .

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20.

The latest standards surrounding HTML 401 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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21.

In conjunction, the HTML 401 specification has slowly reined in the presentational elements.

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22.

The XML-based specification is usually called XHTML 401 to distinguish it clearly from the more traditional definition.

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23.

The underlying syntax of HTML 401 allows many shortcuts that XHTML 401 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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24.

HTML 401 4 defined three different versions of the language: Strict, Transitional and Frameset.

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25.

HTML 401 Living Standard, which is developed by WHATWG, is the official version, while W3C HTML 4015 is no longer separate from WHATWG.

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