HTML - Overview

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most widely used language to write Web Pages. 

• Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked together. Thus, the link available on a webpage is called Hypertext. 

• As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means you use HTML to simply "mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to structure it to display. 

Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information between researchers.

Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags available in HTML language. 

Basic HTML Document 

In its simplest form, following is an example of an HTML document:

Let's save it in an HTML file Heading.html using your favorite text editor. Finally open it using a web browser like Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, or Firefox etc. It must show the following output: 

HTML Tags

As told earlier, HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format the content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces . Except few tags, most of the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example, has its closing tag and tag has its closing tag tag etc. Above example of HTML document uses the following tags: