What is HTML?
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page. The markup tells the Web browser how to display a Web page’s words and images for the user. Each individual markup code is referred to as an element (but many people also refer to it as a tag). Some elements come in pairs that indicate when some display effect is to begin and when it is to end.
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a language that contains instructions. When you browse the Internet and visit websites, you receive text files with instructions. These instructions (termed “source code”) tell the Internet browser how to display text, images, audio, etc. as a “Web page.” Therefore, web pages are only text files (HTML files) containing these instructions for the browser.
