- Hypertext Markup Language is the standard language used by browsers to display webpages.
- HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, and uses tags. This means that in order to define
- an element (something like a heading or paragraph), you use a tag - such as <p>,
- which displays a simple paragraph. Most tags must be closed with closing tags - like </p>,
- however some elements, like those for images (<img>) and linking external resources
- (<link>) are auto closing: they don’t need a closing tag. For example, an image is defined as follows:
-
- <img src="image_source_url">
-
- HTML is closely linked with CSS and JavaScript; a comment in HTML is started with
- <!-- and ended with -->.
-