What is HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages. It was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Webpages can include text, links, images, and even sound and video. HTML tells web browsers what web pages should look like HTML adds meta information to web pages Meta information is information about a webpage, such as the name of the person who created the page. Web browsers usually do not display meta information.

• HTML uses elements to let the browser know how a webpage is made of. Elements are shown as tags in the code, written with angle brackets: <example>. Tags usually come in pairs: an opening tag defines the start of a block of content and a closing tag defines the end of that block of content. There are many kinds of tags, and each one has a different purpose. See Basic HTML Tags below for tag examples.
• Some tags only work in certain browsers. For example, the <menuitem> tag, which was used to make something appear when the person presses the right button of the mouse, only worked on the Mozilla Firefox browser until version 85.[2] Other browsers simply ignore this tag and display the writing normally. Many web page creators avoid using these non-standard tags because they want their pages to look the same with all browsers