HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, the technical language that is used for processing, receiving and displaying information on the internet.
HTML, (when it is not processed and changed into the output data by your browser) is just text all mixed up with codes that are always located in between a less than sign (<) and a greater than sign (>) The text located within these signs is the actual HTML code. These codes are always used twice, the first one to start the code and the other one to end the code.
(e.g. <b> Hey, how's it goin'? </b> )
Will look like
Hey, how's it goin'?
By the way, "b" is the HTML code for bold, so if you want to bold a word or a group of words, then you put that code in with the desired text. (there will be a section of different HTML codes later in this report.) As you probably noticed, the second half of the HTML code has a slash sign (/) in front of the code, the second half of the code must always have this sign in front of it, that's the sign that let's the browser know that "this is the ending code" If you don't add it, The browser is gonna read it as the starting of another HTML code. So always remember that the second half of the code is the exact same as the first half of the code except for the slash in front of it. (It's still in between the brackets though.)
Another thing you HTML code that you should know about is <HTML></HTML> Everything in between these two codes is an HTML document, this code is used when you want to create an entire document using HTML.
Click here if you want to see an example of a very simple HTML code.
