HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. HTML consists of standardized
codes,or "tags", that are used to define the structure of information on
a web page. HTML is used to prepare documents for the World Wide Web. A
web page is single a unit of information, often called a document, that
is available on the World Wide Web.
HTML defines several aspects of a web page including heading levels,
bold, italics, images, paragraph breaks and hypertext links to other
resources.