• With HTML you can create your own Web site.

• 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. not case sensitive language.

• HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text.

HTML Elements and Tags

• A tag is always enclosed in angle bracket

• HTML tags normally come in pairs like

<HTML>and </HTML> i.e.

Start tag = <HTML>

End tag = </HTML>

• Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

HOW TO START

• Write html code in notepad.

• Save the file with (.Html)/(.Htm) extension.

• View the page in any web browser viz. INTERNET EXPLORER, NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR etc.

• The purpose of a web browser (like internet explorer or firefox) is to read html documents and display them as web pages.