HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the language used to create web pages and other types of documents viewable in a browser. More precisely, HTML is the language that describes the structure and the semantic content of a document. The content is tagged with HTML elements like <img>
, <title>
, <p>
, <div>
, …
HTML is an international standard whose specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium and the WHATWG.
HTML is considered a living standard and is technically under continuous development. That always-current version of the HTML specification is referred to as HTML5.
Documentation about HTML
- Introduction to HTML
- This page provides basic information on syntax and semantics of an HTML page (document). This will provide basic information required to develop HTML documents.
- HTML element reference
- Get details about each element supported by different browsers.
- HTML attributes list
- See all attributes and what elements they are associated with.
- HTML5
- Learn about the new HTML5 APIs and elements along with their support.
- HTML Forms Guide
- HTML forms are a complex part of HTML. This guide will help you mastering them, from structure to styling, from browser support to custom controls.
- Bad copy-pasting habits
- Web technologies are very often learned by viewing sources of other pages and copy-pasting. However, this often means that bad habits perpetuate. This page lists some of these bad patterns and show you can achieve their goal the right way.
- Drawing Graphics with Canvas
-
A new HTML element for programmable graphics.
<canvas>
can be used for rendering graphs, UI elements, and other custom graphics on the client. - Tips for Authoring Fast-loading HTML Pages
- An optimized web page not only provides for a more responsive site for your visitors, but also reduces the load on your web servers and internet connection.
Getting help from the community
You need help on a HTML-related problem and can't find the solution in the documentation?
- Consult the dedicated Mozilla forum : {{DiscussionList("dev-tech-html", "mozilla.dev.tech.html")}}
- Go to Stack Overflow, a collaboratively built and maintained Q&A site and look if you can find the answer to your question. If not you will be able to ask your question there.
Don't forget about the netiquette...
Tools easing HTML development
- Recent versions of Firefox include built-in Web Developer tools, such as the Web Console, Page Inspector, Style Editor, and Responsive Design View that assist with developing, debugging, and improving Web pages
- Firefox' Firebug extension, a popular extension of that navigator that allows to edit live CSS on watched sites. Very practical to test some changes, though this extension does much more.
- HTML Validator
- Web Developer Extension
- HTML Tidy
- Pretty Diff
Related Topics
- The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) used to give style to HTML.
- The Document Object Model (DOM) is the representation of an HTML document as a tree.
- XHTML is the XML version of the language.