{"id":8431,"date":"2011-12-20T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/html-4-0\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:06:20","slug":"html-4-0","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/16391\/html-40","title":{"rendered":"HTML 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_html_40_mean\">What Does HTML 4.0 Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Hypertext Markup Language revision 4.0 (HTML 4.0) is a markup language that represents the structure and presentation of web pages. 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