What is HTML?

In Summary:

HTML is a set of standardized codes, or tags, that have been derived from the SGML standard. HTML defines and describes the structure of a web page and is used to prepare documents for the World Wide Web. In addition, HTML documents are portable - they can be viewed with any web browser on any type of computer.

The tags used in HTML consist of a code in between two "wickets". For example, For example, <I> and </I> are the starting and ending tags used to indicate an area of text as italic. Some tags, such the paragraph break, <P>, do not require an ending tag.