What is a HTML and what does it do?

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser. read more

Markup is what HTML tags do to the text inside them. They mark it as a certain type of text (italicised text, for example). HTML is a Language, as it has code-words and syntax like any other language. read more

(Hypertext Markup Language) HTML is the language used to create Web pages for display in Web Browsers. In short, it is the code for creating web pages, using tags and other commands that a browser reads and converts into the normal web pages that people see. read more

HTML tags are written as pairs; there must be a beginning tag and an ending tag in order to make the code display correctly. You can think of it like an opening and closing statement, or like an uppercase letter to start a sentence and a period to end it. read more