HTML stands for "HyperText Mark-up Language." But what does that mean? HyperText are the text which contain links.Mark-up Language is the language which contains tags . These tags are used to change the appearance of the texts."marking up" your text with <b> before it and </b> after it will put that text in bold.HTML is the language that computers read in order to understand web pages.
HTML Tags
HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html> .These tags are of two types i.e. singular tags and paired tags.
Paired Tags
Paired Tags are used because we are normally telling something about where to start applying formatting and where to end it.
Note : Like in the above one we are saying where to start and end the bolding, so we need the second tag to tell it to stop.
Example :
<b>This is a bold Text </b>
<i>This is a italic Text </i>
Demo :
This is bold text This is italic text
Singular Tags
Some other tags does not have to set something to the end. These tags are called Singular tags.
Example :
Consider a line break <br />.
A line break is a single instruction, so you only need one tag.<br /> You don't need to tell a line break when to stop.
Demo :
A line break is a single instruction, so you only need one tag. You don't need to tell a line break when to stop.
Why Should we use HTML ?
Today pretty much web servers (Apache, Microsoft Windows IIS, test and debug web servers, etc) support HTML over HTTP . All Web Browsers can understand HTML .So anything written in HTML will work anywhere.