What Is HTML

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∟What Is HTML

This section provides a quick introduction of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), a scripting language that allows authors to publish text, multimedia and hyperlink information using text files embedded with tags.

What Is HTML? HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the publishing language of the World Wide Web. HTML allows authors to publish text, multimedia and hyperlink information using text files embedded with tags.

Here is an example of an HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- Big_Bang.html
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-->
<html>
<head>
<title>Big Bang Theory</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Illustration of the Big Bang Theory</h2>

<p><img src="Big_Bang.png" alt="Big Bang Theory"><br/>
The above picture illustrates the Big Bang theory - The Universe
expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand
today.
</p>

<p>Read the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang">full article</a> on
Wikimedia to learn more about the Big Bang theory.
</p>
</body>
</html>