The HyperText Markup Language, or HTML is the standard markup language
for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be
assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and
scripting languages such as JavaScript.
Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local
storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages. HTML
describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally
included cues for the appearance of the document.
HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages. With HTML
constructs, images and other objects such as interactive forms may be
embedded into the rendered page. HTML provides a means to create
structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as
headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. HTML
elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets. Tags
such as <img /> and <input /> directly introduce content into the
page. Other tags such as
<p>
surround and provide information about document text and may include
other tags as sub-elements. Browsers do not display the HTML tags,
but use them to interpret the content of the page.