What is HTML?

Web pages are made up of content (the words and images you see), styling (the layout and design), and interactivity (the ability to click, drag, and manipulate things on the page).

The content comes from HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language.

Every website you visit depends on HTML!

A browser (like Chrome, Safari, or Firefox) can read HTML code to display content on a web page.

HTML creates the skeleton of a web page, defining its underlying structure. You can use HTML to specify different parts of your page, for example:

  • header and footer
  • sections
  • text headings
  • body text
  • images
  • links
  • form inputs and buttons
  • items in a list

HTML is called a markup language because it uses tags to "mark up" the content of a document so that the browser knows what that content is supposed to be. For example, a part of the page that is intended to be a heading can be marked that way, and the section of text that follows can be marked that way as well.

There are lots of tags to choose from. Let's take a look at some of them!

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