HTML

HTML is a language for describing web pages.
It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
A markup language is a set of markup tags
HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

With HTML you can create your own Web site.

It markup tags are usually called HTML tags
HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
HTML tags normally come in pairs like and
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

The document of HTML are Web pages
HTML documents describe pages
HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
HTML documents are also called web pages

The text between and describes the web page
The text between and is the visible page content
The text between

and

is displayed as a heading
The text between

and

is displayed as a paragraph