What is HTML?

First developed in the early 90’s HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of mark up symbols, or coded language, used to create web pages. You could think of it as the blueprint underlying a web page in a browser.

HTML is a platform independent language and is therefore appropriate for representing information from a wide range of domains. It is most commonly used to write and display documents on the World Wide Web.

Basically, what the markup language does is tell a web browser exactly how to display the content of a web page to the viewer. It does this by using individual markup codes, or tags to designate where and how specific elements such as words, headings, hypertext links, titles and images are supposed to be displayed. Each individual element is mapped out using HTML making the structure of a document its primary concern.

The appearance of an HTML file is determined by mark-up tags, the monitor, and the settings of the browser-- an HTML document may look great on a system used to create it but might appear different on the software and/or hardware used to view it.

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