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{{Short description|HTML used to reinforce meaning of documents or webpages}}

[[File:HTML element content categories.png|thumb|HTML element content categories]]

'''[[Semantic]] HTML''' is the use of [[HTML]] markup to reinforce the [[semantics]], or meaning, of the information in [[Web page|web pages]] and [[web application]]s rather than merely to define its [[Model–view–presenter|presentation or look]]. Semantic HTML is processed by traditional [[web browser]]s as well as by many other [[user agent]]s. [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] is used to suggest its presentation to human users.

== [[Html]]History ==

HTML has included semantic markup since its inception.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Berners-Lee|first1=Tim|author-link1=Tim Berners-Lee|last2=Fischetti|first2=Mark|title=Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor|url=https://archive.org/details/weavingweborigin00bern_0|url-access=registration|isbn=978-0062515872 |publisher=Harper|___location=San Francisco|year=2000}}</ref> In an HTML document, the author may, among other things, "start with a title; add headings and paragraphs; add emphasis to [the] text; add images; add links to other pages; [and] use various kinds of lists".<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Overview.html|title=Getting started with HTML|last=Raggett|first=Dave|author-link=Dave Raggett|date=24 April 2005|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|access-date=8 December 2010}}</ref>