Title: What is HTML?
Course: Technology Applications

What is HTML?

HTML is a computer language used to create webpages. If uploaded these websites can be viewed by anyone else connected to the Internet. It is relatively easy to learn. It is constantly undergoing revision and evolution to meet the demands and requirements of the growing Internet audience under the direction of the » W3C, the organisation charged with designing and maintaining the language.

H.T.M.L. stands for HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

How does it work?

HTML consists of a series of short codes typed into a text-file. The text is then saved as a .html file, and viewed through a browser, like Internet Explorer , Firefox, or Safari. This browser reads the file and translates the text into a visible form. To write your own HTML you use tags to make your words, images, and links show up properly. You can use anything from a text-editor like NOTEPAD to a powerful graphical editor to create HTML pages.

What are the tags up to?

The tags are what separate normal text from HTML code. You might know them as the words between the <angle-brackets>. They allow all the cool stuff like images and tables and stuff, just by telling your browser what to render on the page. Different tags will perform different functions. The tags themselves don’t appear when you view your page through a browser, but their effects do. The simplest tags do nothing more than apply formatting to some text, like this:

<b>These words will be bold</b>, and these will not.

In the example above, the <b> tags were wrapped around some text, and their effect will be that the contained text will be bolded when viewed through an ordinary web browser.

If you want to see a list of a load of tags to see what’s ahead of you, look at this tag reference.

Is this going to take long?

Well, it depends on what you want from it. Knowing HTML will take only a few days of reading and learning the codes for what you want.  Once you know the tags you can create HTML pages!

- taken and modified from HTMLSource