- Define structure and appearance of documents (along with CSS)
- Allow hyperlinks and linked media files
- Markup (syntax and placement definitions that are not displayed), not word processing
- Latest and last HTML - 4.01 HTML 5
- HTML 5 is the major revision of the HyperText Markup Language
- HTML's development stopped at HTML 4.01 in 1999, and since then web content has evolved so much that current HTML specifications are inadequate for today's requirements.
- New HTML elements that improve our ability to describe content
- <header><nav><article><footer>
- Improved web forms handling
- New form controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url, search
- The <canvas> element allows image scripting on the fly Example