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HTML (HyperText Markup Language) has been around for some time now and is used to display pages on the web. It’s a simple text file with format tags (markup) within. These tags tell your web browser how to display a word, sentence or paragraph. Tags are enclosed by a less than and a greater than sign (<>). Most are in pairs and mark the start and the end of an HTML element.

Web pages are usually transferred over the Internet using the HTTP protocol. And that’s why web browsers will usually insert an “http://” in front of the website address that you’ve typed in.

A text editor (eg. Notepad) and a knowledge of HTML tags, are the bare minimum that you will need when writing an HTML file. There are of course, GUI-based HTML editors that automate most of the typing for you.

The most common tags that you will see on every HTML file are: