Introduction to HTML Creating your first web page Adding a background to your document -Introduction to HTML HTML is a markup language used by all web browsers in determining how to display a web page.
Tags are special codes that wrap around various content to affect the content.
Most tags have a complimentary closing tag, as you will see as we trottle along. HTML is essentially a bunch of tags with even more text. Now that you have a vague idea of what tags are, you're ready to learn about the basic tags that make up a basic web page. Open up your text editor, type the above, and see what it looks like in your browser. The parts in bold are the tags used in this page.