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=== Valid HTML code ===

HTML is a heavily structured [[markup language]]. There are certain rules on how HTML must be written as defined by the [[W3C]] standards. Following these rules allows for sites that are accessible to handicapped people, and also to [[wireless]] devices like [[mobile phone]]s or [[PDA]]s.

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While the "valid HTML" arguement still stands, the larger WYSIWYG editors have greatly improved their automated code writing in each version (even [[Microsoft Frontpage]] which in previous versions was notorious for it's destruction of valid HTML code).

=== HTML is not WYSIWYG ===