HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language web pages are written in. It describes a page's content and structure - headings, paragraphs, links, images, forms - which the browser turns into what you see.
Many Silktide checks read a page's HTML directly, because the structure it declares is exactly what and search engines rely on. Appearance is handled separately by , and behavior by .
Learn more
- HTML Living Standard - the WHATWG specification
- HTML basics - MDN's introduction to HTML