HTML

What is it?

Hyper Text Markup Language

Much clearer, right?

No?

Lets break it down

Markup language = Document + Tags

Basically synonymous with
adding notes to a document

In other words

Marking it up

(ah-ha)

So what are tags?

Tags are composed of a

Start tag
<tagname>

Start tag
<tagname>

And an

End tag
</tagname>

(mostly)

Usually with something in between them

Like text, or more tags

Multiple sets of tags are nested

YES:
<A> <B> </B> </A>

NO:
<A> <B> </A> </B>

Browsers interpret these
tags to figure out how to
display content in
an HTML document

There are tags for
all kinds of stuff

Images

Links

Document
structure

And much more

Great

But still rather abstract

So lets dive in to an HTML document