- standard text-formatting language since 1989 for documents on the interconnected computing network known as the World Wide Web
- created at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), by British scientist Timothy Berners-Lee as a means of sharing information among researchers. (1989)

Two Parts of HTML documents
a. content- meant to be rendered on a computer screen

Advantages of HTML
- publishes any kind of information on the web
- allows formatting of text, graphics, sound and video and save it all in text-only ASCII file
- links to other documents and organizations’ Web pages, giving users access to information held at other sites or anything else on the internet.

Browsers
- most important tool for creating HTML documents.
- test and display HTML pages and make sure that they look the way the users want them to-regardless of browser used.
- programs that enables a computer to locate, download, and display documents containing text, sound, video, graphics, animation, and photographs located on computer network

Building Blocks of HTML
a. Text editor/Word Processor
where HTML documents are created (notepad or word pad)
b. HTML Tags
- commands written between less than (<) and greater than (>) signs.
- also know as angle brackets
- both opening and closing tags use the same command word but the closing tag carries an initial forward slash.

What constitutes an HTML Tag?
- Attributes – entered between the command word and the final greater symbol.
- Values – used together with attribute
- Quotation Marks – used to enclosed values containing the letters A-Zand -digits 0- 9.

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