LESSON 1

What is HTML?

Learning objective: Understand what HTML is and the role it plays in every web page.

Understand

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language used to describe the structure and content of every web page.

HTML is not a programming language. It is a markup language: you wrap your content in tags that tell the browser what each piece of content *is* — a heading, a paragraph, a link, an image. The browser reads that markup and turns it into the page you see.

Analogy: HTML is like the skeleton of a body: it gives a page its structure before CSS adds the looks and JavaScript adds the movement.

See It in Action

A tiny HTML page can be just a heading and a paragraph:

<h1>Hello, Bynteq!</h1>
<p>I am learning HTML.</p>
How it works: The <h1> tag marks a main heading and <p> marks a paragraph. The browser reads these tags and shows the text with the right size and spacing.

Try It Yourself

  1. Create a file called index.html.
  2. Add an <h1> with your name and a <p> about why you are learning to code.
  3. Open the file in your browser and confirm you see the heading and paragraph.

Quick Quiz

What does HTML mainly describe on a web page?

Challenge

Write a page that introduces you with one heading and two short paragraphs.

Success condition: Your browser displays one heading and two paragraphs from your own HTML file.