What is HTML?
HTML is a language for describing web pages.
* HTML 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
HTML Tags
HTML 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
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Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags.
HTML Documents - Web Pages
* HTML documents describe web pages
* HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
* HTML documents are also called web pages