Lesson 1 of 8
What is HTML?
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the standard language for creating web pages. Every website you visit uses HTML to structure its content.
Think of HTML as the skeleton of a webpage. It tells the browser what is a heading, what is a paragraph, what is an image, and so on.
HTML uses tags to mark up content. A tag is written inside angle brackets, like <p>. Most tags come in pairs: an opening tag and a closing tag.
HTML
<!-- This is an HTML comment -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
<p>This is my first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>