HTML in a jiffy

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, it is the most basic and possibly the most important aspect of a webpage(depending on your view)

HTML can be referred to as the skeleton of a webpage, it defines the basic parts like tables, lists, images and so on.

Every single part of a webpage is called an element and an element is surrounded by tags (<tagname>). Tags are less than and greater than signs placed side by side, for example : "<>".

There are two types of tags: opening tags ( < > ) and closing tags( </ > ) . An element is mostly started with a opening tag and ended with a closing tag (some elements are in standalone tags " < /> " ).