What HTML is

What HTML is

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) describes the structure of a web page — its headings, paragraphs, links and images. Your browser reads HTML and builds the page you see.

It isn't a programming language — it's a markup language. You wrap content in tags to say what each piece means.

See it run — edit the code and the result updates live:

Key points

• HTML describes structure, not appearance (that's CSS's job).
• Content is wrapped in tags like <h1> and <p>.
• The browser turns your tags into the page you see.

Your turn: change the heading text, then add a second <p> paragraph below the first.