HTML

HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the basic building block of web pages. It is the language used to structure content on the internet, allowing browsers to understand and display text, images, links, videos, and other media. Think of HTML as the skeleton of a webpage—it sets up the basic framework, but it’s the styling (CSS) and interactivity (JavaScript) that bring the site to life.

Basically, HTML uses tags that are placed between angle brackets to denote the different types of content. For example, 

<h1>is a main heading, while <p> is for paragraphs. Most HTML tags appear in pairs: an opening tag and a closing tag. For example, you may see something like <p>This is a paragraph.</p>. Some tags, like for this one<br>, don’t need a closing tag because they’re self-contained. HTML features attributes: these define properties beyond just the structure of the tag, for example using (src) to state where an image is to be drawn; or hyperlinking with the (href) in an anchor element.