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HTML is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and a core technology of the Internet.
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Pros
Pro Styling via CSS
Styling through CSS is declarative and powerful, but somewhat inadequate for print without expensive tools like Prince.
Pro Natively understood by browsers
Natively understood by browsers, you can author and view HTML on virtually every computer without any additional software.
Pro Most universal and widely used markup language
Pro Simple
HTML is fairly simple for both humans and machines. It can be repetitive and burdensome to type, but less so than most other XML or SGML-derived formats.
Pro Simple interactivity through JavaScript
JavaScript code can be embedded directly into a HTML document.
Cons
Con Verbose
Tags can hide actual content.
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