Introduction to HTML

HTML stands for hypertext markup language. It is not a programming language. A markup language specifies the layout and style of a document. A markup language consists of a set of markup tags. HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages. HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <>. Most HTML tags normally come in pairs like <> </>and, The first tag is called the start tag (or opening tag) and the second tag is called the end tag (or closing tag). HTML documents describe Web pages. HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text. HTML documents are also called Web pages. A web browser read HTML documents and displays them as Web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page. A simple HTML document is given below:

Save this page with .html or .htm extension. However, it is good practice to use .html extension.