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HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the document format language used on the World Wide Web. Web browsers read HTML and display the page. HTML enables links to be specified, and also the structure and formatting of Web documents to be defined. HTML documents are written in plain text, but with the addition of tags which describe or define the text they enclose. For example, a link is defined by the ANCHOR <A> tag placed around the hyperlinked text.
The HTML Tag:
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) can be described as a set of special codes referred to as "tags," which instruct a web browser how to display a hypertext document.
An HTML tag is a code element that tells the Web browser what to do with your text. Each tag will appear as letters or words between a < (less than sign) and a > (greater than sign).
Example: <center>, <body>
To tell the Web browser to "end" doing what you just told it to do, a forward slash is used in the closing tag:
Example: </center>, </body>
