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1. What is an HTML e-mail?
   
   HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is a universally recognised Web-programming language which is used to format text, graphics, sound and video. It enables the production of Web pages on the Internet and can also be used to create e-mails.
   
   HTML e-mails look similar to Web pages--they allow the use of graphics within mailings and include many of the things that our subscribers have asked for: pictures, colour and hotlinks.
   
   
2. Does an HTML e-mail take longer to download than a plain-text e-mail?
   
   Generally, an HTML e-mail does take a little longer to download than a plain-text message. We know that some of our subscribers are concerned about this so our HTML e-mails have been designed to keep download time to a minimum.
   
   
3. Does my e-mail program accept HTML?
   
   Have you ever received an e-mail that has included pictures or graphics? If so, then your e-mail program probably accepts HTML. A growing number of our subscribers have e-mail applications that accommodate HTML (Netscape Communicator 3.0 or higher, Microsoft Outlook 98, Microsoft Outlook Express and certain Web-based e-mail providers). Some people use older programs that can only read plain-text messages. If you use a text-based e-mail client, you should subscribe to the text-only versions of our e-mails.

More About HTML

HTML

Abbreviation for HyperText Markup Language - a language used to make web pages.

HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than signs (>). HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.

HTML is also often used to refer to content of the MIME type text/html or even more broadly as a generic term for HTML whether in its XML-descended form (such as XHTML 1.0 and later) or its form descended directly from SGML (such as HTML 4.01 and earlier).

• Structured text web pages, with visually nice formating of:
  • chapter and section headings,
  • paragraphs and text markups such as italics and bold to stress parts of text,
  • unnumbered and numbered lists,
  • tables;
• embedding of visible raster images into the text flow;
• links, that allows accessing other web pages on World Wide Web.

Various variants of HTML integrated with CSS, DOM access through EcmaScript (JavaScript and similar), allows for advanced dynamical web page design, read further on.

Definition of HTML

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.

1. Hypertext is ordinary text that has been dressed up with extra features, such as formatting, images, multimedia, and links to other resources.
2. Markup is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols. Each of the symbols used for markup in HTML is a command that tells a browser how to display the text.