What's HTML and what is it used for?

Html stands for HyperText Markup Language. Html describes the structure of every website.

Lets take a piece of paper as an example. Your goal is to write a letter to a colleague.

You know you need a way to layout your paper descriptive and clearly and even neat so when your colleague receives it, he will be able to know the letter is addressed to him/her.

How is he able to know this letter is addressed to him?

Well, when he opens the letter, there's going to be a heading telling him this letter is for him/her.

So are web documents, with titles, headings, paragraphs. HTML elements come together to form the basic structure of a web page.

Without html elements, there'll be no websites.

HTML is the skeleton of a web page . It's used to cover the very basic needs and can almost be seen as an outline of what and all you want to have on your page.

HTML Elements are represented by tags .

<!--html-->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

HTML basically tells our web browsers, what type of content to render. To render a heading or a paragraph.

Note: Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to render the content of the page