What+is+HTML?

HTML is short for **H**yper**T**ext **M**arkup **L**anguage. HTML is the language which is used to display web pages. Web browsers are programs which make sense of HTML and interpret the HTML instructions to display a web page.

Here is some basic HTML for a very simple web page:

Welcome to my web page  This is my web page This could become the best web site in the world EVER!!!

And here's how the web page actually looks in a browser:



You should notice that: > These are called tags
 * The HTML contains some instructions in between angled brackets e.g. or.
 * Every tag should have an end tag to match it e.g. or
 * End tags have a forward slash after the first angled bracket.