> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.deepl.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# HTML handling
> Learn how to translate HTML content with the DeepL API.
We've released an **improved version** of XML and HTML tag handling. Check it out [here](/docs/xml-and-html-handling/tag-handling-v2)!
By default, the translation engine does not take HTML tags into account. By setting the `tag_handling` parameter to `html`, the API will process HTML input by extracting the text out of the structure, splitting it into individual sentences, translating them, and placing them back into the HTML structure.
For the translation of (non-HTML) XML content please see [XML Handling](/docs/xml-and-html-handling/xml)
### Splitting of newlines
The default value for the `split_sentences` parameter for all requests where `tag_handling=html` is `nonewlines`, meaning the translation engine splits on punctuation only, ignoring newlines.
The default value `split_sentences` for text translations where `tag_handling` is not set to `html` is `1`, meaning the translation engine splits on punctuation and on newlines.
Please note that for next-gen models, the parameter `split_sentences`passed by the user is ignored and a value of `nonewlines`is used for maximum translation quality.
### Disable translation of elements
To prevent the translation of elements in the HTML structure, the translation engine respects the `translate="no"` and `class="notranslate"` attributes. In the following example, the `translate="no"` attribute is used to prevent translation of the paragraph:
```markup Example request theme={null}
My First Heading
My first paragraph.
```
```markup Example response theme={null}
Meine erste Überschrift
My first paragraph.
```