Learn HTML, HTML tutorial for beginners
The full name of HTML is Hypertext Markup Language. In which each word has different meaning. Let us now know the meaning of each word and understand why HTML is called Markup Language?
Hypertext is the way by which the web is explored. It is just a simple text. But, Hypertext keeps any other text attached to it. Which is activated with a mouse click, tap or by pressing a key. It is this feature that sets it apart from ordinary text. Hypertext is called hyperlink.
Any text can be made a hyperlink through HTML’s Anchor (< a >) tag. Apart from this, images, videos, sounds etc. can also be hyperlinked.
Hypertext is text which is not constrained to be linear.
Example
We take a word, ‘Durgesh Tiwari’ which is written simply. Which we are seeing directly like “Durgesh Tiwari” just like the normal text. Now we markup it through HTML. And we bold it in the markup. When Durgesh Tiwari is written between these two symbols like this Durgesh Tiwari then this word will appear as bold “Durgesh Tiwari”. That is, it has been marked bold.
HTML uses “HTML Tags” to create web documents. Each HTML tag defines the text that comes between it in some way. This is called Markup. “<b>” is an HTML tag that bolds the text.
HTML is a language. Because it uses code-words to create web documents. Which are called Tags. And there is also the syntax of HTML to write these tags. Therefore it is also a language.