Introduction to HTML

At its heart, HTML is a language made up of elements, which can be applied to pieces of text to give them different meaning in a document (Is it a paragraph? Is it a bulleted list? Is it part of a table?), structure a document into logical sections (Does it have a header? Three columns of content? A navigation menu?), and embed content such as images and videos into a page. This module will introduce the first two of these and introduce fundamental concepts and syntax you need to know to understand HTML.

HTML stands forHypertextMarkupLanguage, and it is the most widely used language to
write Web Pages.
Hypertextrefers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked
together. Thus,the link avaiabe on a webpage is called Hypertext.
As its name suggests, HTML is aMarkup Languagewhich means you use HTML to
simply “markup” a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to structure
it to display.
Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like
headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information
between researchers.
Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags available
in HTML language.
Basic HTML Document
In itssimplest form, following is an example of an HTML document:


This is document title

Document content goes here…..

Either you can useTry itoption available at the top right corner of the code box to check the
result of this HTML code, or et’s save it in an HTML filetest.htmusing your favorite text
editor. Finaly open it using a web browser like Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, or Firefox
etc.