HTML
or HyperText Markup Language is the main
markup language for creating
web
pages and other information that can be displayed in a
web browser.
HTML is written in the form of
HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in
angle brackets (like
<html>),
within the web page content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like
<h1>
and
</h1>,
although some tags represent empty elements and so are unpaired,
for example
<img>.
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, and the second tag is
the end tag (they are also called opening tags and
closing tags). In between these tags web designers can add text,
further tags,
comments and other types of text-based content.
The purpose of a
web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visible
or audible web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but
uses the tags to interpret the content of the page.
HTML elements form the building blocks of all
websites.
HTML allows
images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create
interactive forms. It provides a means to create
structured documents by denoting structural
semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists,
links,
quotes and other items. It can embed
scripts written in languages such as
JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML web pages
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