The World Wide Web is made of a serious of websites brought together by the language of HTML. HTML is best described as a language for websites. They show your browser the description of the site.

HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language. If you look at the last two words you will see that it says markup language, it is a common mistake to think that HTML is a programming code. What HTML actually is, is markup tags which HTML uses to present websites the way we seem them in our browser. These tags are referred to as HTML tags.

When looking at the code of HTML you will see the HTML tags are surrounded by brackets <>. Most of the time these brackets will come in pairs to start the code and to finish the code. These are referred to as opening and closing tags. The start of the website will start with and finish with .

While the web has advanced from text based websites to websites with streaming video and audio HTML has allowed us to advance as our computer capabilities have. Without the work of HTML the World Wide Web would be a much different place.