W3C

HTML Living Standard

The HyperText Markup Language specification maintained by WHATWG as a living standard, published as a W3C Recommendation. HTML defines the semantic structure of web pages and forms the foundation of the web platform.

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Specification

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/

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W3C Recommendation

https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/

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GitHub

https://github.com/whatwg/html

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aid: w3c:html
name: HTML Living Standard
description: The HyperText Markup Language specification maintained by WHATWG as a living standard, published
  as a W3C Recommendation. HTML defines the semantic structure of web pages and forms the foundation of
  the web platform.
humanURL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
tags:
- HTML
- Standards
- Web Platform
properties:
- url: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
  type: Specification
- url: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/
  type: W3C Recommendation
- url: https://github.com/whatwg/html
  type: GitHub