What is HTML? HTML is a language for describing web pages. • HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language • HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language • A markup language is a set of markup tags • HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags • HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like • HTML tags normally come in pairs like and • The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag • Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags