HTML

Hypertext Markup Language is the authoring software language used on the Internet's World Wide Web. HTML is used for creating Web pages and it is a tag-based ASCII language. HTML is a mark up language and not a full-blown programming language so is therefore essentially static in nature.

HTML is parsed by your web browser when a web page downloads and consists of tags (commands to tell the browser how to render the text, where to load in graphics etc on the web page) as well as the actual text.

HTML is cross-platform because there are web browsers on every type of operating system which allow you to view websites written in HTML the same way, no matter which OS you are using. Firefox, the most popular cross-platform browser available, displays pages exactly the same when you are using Windows as when you are using Mac OS X.

A HTML page consists of two parts;
The 'Head' section which contains the page title, keywords(useful for search engines) and sometimes scripts.
The 'Body' section contains the code for what you see on the screen.

An example of Html code is below.



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