HTML: HyperText Markup Language
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the most basic building block of the Web.
It defines the meaning and structure of web content.
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
The HyperText Markup Language, or HTML, is the standard markup language for documents designed
to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting
languages such as JavaScript.
Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia
web pages. HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of
the document.
HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages. With HTML constructs, images and other objects such as
interactive forms may be embedded into the rendered page. HTML provides a means to create structured documents
by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items.
HTML elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets. Tags such as <img /> and <input /> directly
introduce content into the page. Other tags such as <p> surround and provide information about document text
and may include other tags as sub-elements. Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to interpret
the content of the page.
HTML can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript, which affects the behavior and content of
web pages. Inclusion of CSS defines the look and layout of content. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former maintainer
of the HTML and current maintainer of the CSS standards, has encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML
since 1997.
Source: Wikipedia
HTML Articles
The HTML Handbook
HTML was officially born in 1993 and since then it evolved into its current state,
moving from simple text documents to powering rich Web Applications.
Why HTML is Not a Programming Language by Ben Romy
HTML is a type of markup language. It encapsulates, or “marks up” data within HTML
tags, which define the data and describe its purpose on the webpage. The web browser
then reads the HTML, which tells it things like which parts are headings, which
parts are paragraphs, which parts are links, etc. The HTML describes the data to
the browser, and the browser then displays the data accordingly.