Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, and is the markup language used by web pages to tell the web browser how to display the web page. You can think of it like a description of what the page must look like, which the web browser then uses to construct the page.

HTML has certain standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the latest standard being XHTML - a combination of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and HTML 4.