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What is HTML and how does it work?

In simple terms and to just introduce HTML (and not technical), most pages that people view on the internet are simply text files, that are being displayed a special way within a browser, they simply have the affix .html instead of .txt.

Whatever your browser (Internet explorer, firefox, opera, safari etc) they will attempt to render the text document according to some rules contained within it.

The rules contained within the document are in the form of tags placed within a < and a >.

These tags specify the rules or “markup” language for the way the text should be displayed.

The tags (generally) must have an equal amount of opening and closing tags, and must be closed in order.

There are many different tags, with many different uses.

For example, to render text as a header, the tag would be <h1>HEADER TEXT</h1>.

The tagging or, “markup language” explains the latter part of the acroynm HTML or “Hyper”, “Text”, “Markup“, “Language“.

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