overview of HTML language

Html stands for Hypertext Markup Language & it is most widely used language to write web pages.

Hypertext refers to the way in which web pages (HTML documents) are linked together thus the link available on a webpage is called hypertext.

As its name suggest, html is a markup language which 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 paragraphs the structure of document live headings paragraphs lists & so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information between researches.

Now, html is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags available in html language.