Computer Science
What is HTML?
- HTML is a language for describing web pages.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML is a markup language
- A markup language is a set of markup tags
- The tags describe document content
- HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
- HTML documents are also called web pages
- HTML Tags
- HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags.
- HTML tags are keywords (tag names) 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
- The end tag is written like the start tag, with a slash before the tag name
- Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags