According to the W3C* specification
What's a markup tag ? it's a predefined word to insert a specified component in the web page.HTML is a language for describing web pages.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
- A markup language is a set of markup tags
- HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages
HTML is the minimal requirement to develop a website without styling, client side nor server side scripting. So if you want to become an expert in web design , you need to begin from here.
Take a web page in the Internet, what can you see in the page? otherwise, what components can you notice in a web page without considering colors and styles? surely you will answer me :
"I see buttons, images, forms,inputs, paragraphs and so on..."That's good, and this is the task just done with HTML..
