Summary
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| Name |
Hypertext Markup Language |
| Version |
4.01 |
| Other names |
HTML (4.01) |
| Identifiers |
PUID:
fmt/100
Apple Uniform Type Identifier:
public.html
MIME:
text/html
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| Family |
|
| Classification |
Text (Mark-up) |
| Disclosure |
Full |
| Description |
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the rendering of information via a web browser. It was originally defined as a highly simplified subset of SGML, but is now an international standard, and is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). A HTML document consists of nested elements, each of which may have attributes and content. It begins with an HTML Document Type declaration, defining the HTML version and Document Type Definition (DTD) to which it conforms. HTML 4.01 contains minor editorial revisions to the HTML 4.0 specification. |
| Orientation |
Text |
| Byte order |
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| Related file formats |
Has lower priority than Internet Archive (1.0)
Has lower priority than Extensible Markup Language (1.0)
Has lower priority than MHTML
Has lower priority than WARC
Has lower priority than Internet Archive (1.1)
Has lower priority than Apple iBook format
Has lower priority than ePub format
Has lower priority than Internet Explorer for Mac cache file
Has lower priority than Apple Safari Webarchive
Has lower priority than WARC (1.1)
Has lower priority than WARC (1.0)
Has priority over Hypertext Markup Language
Is subsequent version of Hypertext Markup Language (4.0)
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| Technical Environment |
|
| Released |
24 Dec 1999 |
| Supported until |
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| Format Risk |
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| Developed by |
 World Wide Web Consortium
|
| Supported by |
None.
|
| Source |
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
|
| Source date |
11 Mar 2005 |
| Source description |
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| Last updated |
02 Aug 2005 |
| Note |
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Details: File format summary
: detailed report on file format 
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