Introduction to HTML

Introducing you to HTML

HTML is used to create web pages. If you right click on the page you are currently viewing & select View page source, you find nothing but HTML code. So, whatever you view in your web browser (Google chrome, Internet explorer, Mozilla firefox etc) is mostly HTML. By now you might have understood the importance of HTML. It is very easy to learn. Before that, let us find answers to some basic questions.

What is HTML?

The full form of HTML is Hypertext Markup Language.

To get a clear picture, let’s find what does these terms mean…

Hypertext-It is a text which contains links to other texts.

Markup- Markup refers to the sequence of characters or other symbols that we insert at certain places in a text or word processing file to indicate how the file should look when it is printed or displayed or to describe the document's logical structure.

So, HTML is used for writing a text which contains links to other texts & using HTML we can indicate how our file should look like when it is displayed.

The definition of HTML goes like this: /*Optional*/

It is a document format that structures text and data on the Internet using elements. It is the most common language used for creating standard web pages.

You will learn about elements in the coming chapters.