What is HTML? A Step-by-Step Beginner’s Guide

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What is HTML?

HTML is HyperText Markup Language. It is a popular markup language used to create web pages. Using HTML elements, such as tags and attributes, it enables the development and structuring of sections, paragraphs, and links.

What is HyperText?

HyperText stands for “Text within Text.” A text that contains links is a hypertext. A hypertext link is one that when you click on it opens a new webpage for you. Two or more web pages (HTML documents) can be linked together via hypertext.

What is Markup Language?

A markup language is a computer language that is used to apply style and formatting principles to text documents. Text become more interactive and dynamic using markup language. It can convert text into graphics, tables, links, and other formats.


HTML is used to style web pages to make them seem appealing and present themselves nicely in web browsers. Numerous HTML tags make up an HTML document, and each HTML tag has a unique content.

Example of simple HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE>  
<html>  
<head>  
<title>Tittle</title>  
</head>  
<body>  
<h1>First Heading</h1>  
<p>Paragraph.</p>  
</body>  
</html>  
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Iftikhar Qureshi
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