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HTML is the language used on the web to be viewed by Web Browsers. HTML documents are plain-text (also known as ASCII) files that can be created using any plain text editor (SimpleText on a Macintosh; Notepad or WordPad on a Wintel machine). You can also use a number of HTML Editors to aid you in the creation of your web page or pages.
HTML is a series of 'tags' that browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer recognise and then format text and images to create a web page.
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, it is used to create the documents for the World Wide Web. As a markup language, HTML is not so much concerned about the appearance of a document, but about its structure. For example, one uses HTML to mark the headings, paragraphs, lists, and links to other documents.
In general, HTML commands have beginning and ending tags "<" and ">". The commands are not case sensitive. If HTML does not recognize a specific character, it will ignore it. Leaving a blank line or inserting a return in your document will not end the current line and go to the next as it would in a word processor. When the document is displayed in a browser, it looks for returns in the form of "<br>" which is the HTML equivalent.
Even though HTML is a programming language of sorts, it isn't really a language like BASIC, C++, or Pascal. Rather, it's a way of getting a Web Browser like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer to display a web page which still looks roughly like a human-readable document.
If you are having difficulty following along, I strongly suggest skipping forward to The Basics for another simpler look at HTML tags.
As an example of an HTML tag, I'll use <center>. The center tag centers anything put between it and it's ending tag of </center>.
Example:
A </center> tag was used after the text above to close the tag, thus making this text not be centered as well.
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