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Fundamentals of HTML

HTML is an acronym, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, which is used for creating web pages and web applications.

HyperText: HyperText simply means "Text within Text." A text has a link within it, is a hypertext. Whenever you click on a link which brings you to a new webpage, you have clicked on a hypertext. HyperText is a way to link two or more web pages (HTML documents) with each other.

Markup Language: A markup language is a computer language that is used to apply layout and formatting conventions to a text document. Markup language makes text more interactive and dynamic. It can turn text into images, tables, links, etc.

Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document.

  • HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document.
  • Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages.
  • HTML helps to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items.
  • HTML elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets.