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A Web page is a hypermedia document. It is a specific implementation, though, that has its own characteristics.

HTML describes a Web page, which is stored in a plain text file with the htm or html file extension. The primary purpose of HTML is to describe how to format the text content of a Web page. For example, HTML tags specify when text is displayed with emphasis or when a block of text is formatted as a heading. Some HTML tags also cause the Web browser to display an image or to format content as a table. Most importantly, HTML tags can link a word or phrase to other documents on the Internet. In short, a Web page is a combination of text and the HTML tags that format that text.