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HTML code

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Definition:

HTML code usually means the markup language HTML that allows web browsers to render web content.

Many people refer to the language that builds web pages as HTML code. HTML is the language that is used to write web pages. But the term “code” is misleading. Many people consider code to mean a programming language like C++ or Perl, and so they don't consider HTML to be code.

HTML Codes Are Different

HTML codes are special characters that cannot be rendered with keyboard characters (like Ǽ or ė) or characters that are used in HTML itself (like <, >, and &).

Also Known As: HTML
Examples:

HTML code looks like this:

<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>My Web Page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>My Web Page</h1>
    <p>
      This is my web page.
    </p>
  </body>
</html>

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