HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the scripting language used to display on the web browser. Web browser is the client softeare running on ones system, which enables to browse the web. An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags. The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page. An HTML file must have an htm or html file extension. An HTML file can be created using a simple text editor. There are many pretty editers which can be used to create HTML files easily.
Browsers Browsers are the client programs to display the web contents on the users screen. eg. Internet explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc.
You might have noticed the < > symbols. These are HTML Tags. These tags are used by the browser. It wont be displayed on the browser screen. The first tag in your HTML document is . This tag tells your browser that this is the start of an HTML document. The last tag in your document is . This tag tells your browser that this is the end of the HTML document.
The text between the tag and the tag is header information. Header is supposed to code the style attributes, scripting codes etc for the web page.The text between the tags is the text that will be displayed in your browser.
The text between the and tags will be displayed in a bold font.
