HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the main markup language for displaying 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 ), within the web page content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like  and, although some tags, known as empty elements, are unpaired, for example . The first tag in a pair is the start tag, 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, tags, comments and other types of text-based content.

What is HTML?

• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTML is a markup language
• A markup language is a set of markup tags
• The tags describes document content
• HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
• HTML documents are also called web pages

Example Explained

• The DOCTYPE declaration defines the document type
• The text between and describes the web page
• The text between and is the visible page content
• The text between and is displayed as a heading
• The text between and
  is displayed as a paragraph