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 # HTML
 
-Quickly render HTML in Elm.
+HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
+HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
+HTML describes the structure of a Web page
+HTML consists of a series of elements
+HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
+HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc.
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 ## Examples