What is HTML- what does html stand for

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HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. To learn creating web pages with simple formatting you must learn basic HTML commands, tags and Document Type Definition (DTD). Today there are number of HTML editors available online to learn and create attractive HTML web pages. But if you want to learn most of HTML language codes you must use notepad as a basic HTML editor.

Examples of Advanced HTML editors:

Microsoft Front Page
Netscape Composer
Macromedia DreamWeaver

Example of basic HTML editor:

Notepad

Basics of HTML Tags

HTML is a type of text file formatted with text strings within Tags. A tag is a HTML command enclosed with brackets <tag>. Some tags also have closing tag to encapsulating the HTML command with bracket having / symbol e.g. </tag>. There are two types of HTML tags:

Paired HTML tags
Un-Paired HTML tags

Paired HTML Tags:
HTML tags having paired closing tag are called paired closing tag e.g. <html></html>, <body></body>

Un-Paired HTML Tags:
HTML tags having no closing tag are called un-paired tag e.g. <br>, <hr>

Document Type Definitions (DTD)

HTML documents are based up on DTD. DTD is the grammar of HTML as well XML pages. Document Type Definition contains all the elements, attributes, notations and entities used in XML or HTML documents.

Basic Html Commands

Following are some basic HTML tags to start creating simple web page:

<html></html>: Every HTML document is encapsulated within this HTML tag to define the text file as HTML document.
<head></head>: HEAD tag defines the heading section of HTML web page. This tag does not affect any formatting of web page information that is being displayed.
<title></title>: TITLE tag sets the title of HTML web page. Internet browser shows this title in the title bar of its window.
<body></body>: BODY tag defines the area of web page where page layout, design and information is being displayed the user.