- HTML stands for Hyper Text markup Language
- HTML is not a progrmming language, it is a mark up language
- A markup language is set of mark up tags
- HTML uses mark up tags to describe web pages
HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags
- HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle like<html>
- HTML tags normally come in pairs like<b></b>
- 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
