HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, is the key markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items.
It allows images and objects to be implanted and can be used to create interactive forms. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of “tags” surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content.
The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called HTML Tags, first mentioned on the Internet by Berners-Lee in late 1991. It describes 20 elements comprising the initial, relatively simple design of HTML. Except for the hyperlink tag, these were strongly influenced by SGML guide, an in-house SGML based documentation format at CERN. Thirteen of these elements still exist in HTML 4.
<html>
<body>
<h1> My First Heading </h1>
<p> My first paragraph. </p>
</body>
</html>
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