HTML is a language for describing and defining 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 of web
- HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
- HTML documents are also called web pages
HTML markup tags are actuallycalled HTML tags
- HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
- HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>
- The first tag <b> in a pair of tag is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag </b>
- The end tag is written like the start tag, with a forward slash before the tag name
- All opening tags must need to contain closing tag
- Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags
