HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is an important language to design web pages or websites. These websites are visible to anyone on the internet. HTML is a combination of Hypertext and Markup language. Where hypertext is a link between the webpages, and markup language is used to define the text document within a tag, that defines the structure of the web pages.

HTML uses predefined tags that tell the browser how to display the content. Tags are nothing but some instructions that are enclosed in angle braces(i.e., <>). It is divided into three parts, i.e., opening tag, content(which will display on the browser), and closing tag, but some tags are special tags that do not contain closing tags like <BR> tag. When you are working with HTML tags always remember to include closing tags. If you forget to close the tag, the browser applies the effect of the opening tag until the end of the page. HTML contains four essential tags that form the basic structure of any webpage or HTML file: