Knowing the basics of HTML — HyperText Markup Language, is a good thing. Learning HTML is not as hard as it may seem, basically a web page is made up of a series of matching tags and in between all of these tags is your content or links to someone elses content, see simple hahaha. So how can understanding HTML help you, lets have a look at a few possible reasons.

• Create pages that are uniquely your own.
• Helps you understand how the Web works: This understanding is pretty valuable if you’re a heavy Web user (or a light one), especially if you plan to publish on the Web. Some of the Web’s limitations, such as “what you see is not (exactly) what you get,” are hard to understand if you don’t know something about HTML.
• To use free Web tools: Many free Web tools enable you to enter HTML tags directly to jazz up your text. Knowing a few tags can go a long way.
• To work directly in HTML: Many Web pros tire of managing HTML tags by hand and start using a tool that hides the tags. Others swear by HTML. Everyone swears at HTML, at least some of the time. But the only way to have a choice is to know some HTML.
• To do better work using a tool: When you’re using a tool that hides the gory details of HTML from you, knowing enough HTML to understand what’s going on “behind the scenes” is an advantage. In fact, tools that hide the HTML almost all have a mode that lets you see and work in HTML when you choose to, for just that reason.

HTML is a specific way of adding descriptive tags to regular text so that all the formatting, linking, and navigational information you need in a Web page is in text form, contained in the same file with the regular text that appears on the Web page. HTML is designed to be something that humans can read and that machines can process, a kind of common ground for human-to-machine communication.

Introduction To Tags

Lets suppose that you want to make a certain word stand out from the rest of your text like so:

• You can use HTML to specify that a word is bold.

To add bold formatting to a sentence using HTML, just take the regular sentence and add a couple of tags to specify where the bold starts and stops. Here’s the previous line in HTML

• <p>You can use HTML to specify that a word is <strong>bold</strong></p>

When you display the sentence with the HTML tags in a Web browser, the browser displays all the words, but not the tags — the information between angle brackets. The Web browser uses the tags to do extra things to the text, such as add formatting to it. In this case, the formatting is simple: Start using bold text immediately after the word “is,” and stop using bold text immediately after the word “bold.”

Because HTML tags exist alongside the text that users see on your Web page, a document with HTML tags in it is called HTML-tagged text. A file with HTML tagged text in it is called an HTML file — but it’s really just a specific kind of text file.

An HTML file usually has the extension .htm or .html at the end of the filename. If you look at HTML tagged text in a text editing program, you see the angle brackets and HTML commands; if you look at it in a Web browser, you see a Web page with formatting, links, and so on.