text/*

text/html

File extensions: .html, .htm

HyperText Markup Language — the format of every web page.

What is text/html?

text/html is the media type served by every ordinary web page. The browser parses the body as HTML, applies CSS, and runs any JavaScript found inside.

Typical usage

Web pages, HTML fragments returned by HTMX / Turbo endpoints, email bodies.

Common gotchas

Always include charset=utf-8 (or serve UTF-8 declared via <meta charset>) — the historical default of ISO-8859-1 breaks any non-ASCII content.

HTTP header example

Response header

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Reference

HTML Living Standard

Related MIME types

text/plain

Plain text

text/css

CSS

text/javascript

JavaScript

text/csv

CSV

text/xml

XML (text form)

text/markdown

Markdown