What is HTML?

HTML is Hyper Text Markup language. Web pages read HTML in order to display your website content. Saying "HTML page" is the same as saying "Web page". HTML tags format the document and adds functionality. For example, the headline of your site can use the headline tags <h1>, <h2>, <h2> and so forth. This makes text larger and bold for headline. The <h1> being the largest. The <p> tag is for paragraphs and so forth. You will learn more about this in our next article called Understanding Basic HTML Tags.