HTML is a Markup Language for creating web pages and documents. It is not a programming Language, as one of the key elements of a programming language is logic, conditionals like if statements, loops, etc. However HTML does not have any of this, it is just used to display and format elements of a web page which may be a text paragraph or a heading, a bullet list, images, and many more. This makes HTML strictly presentational.

HTML is the building block of the web. "Hypertext" refers to links that connect web pages to one another, either within a single website or between websites. Every single site that we see outputs HTML to the browser no matter what kind of advanced programming it uses in the backend.

What We Need To Start With HTML

• A Web Browser - Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.
• A Text Editor - VsCode, Vim, Sublime, etc.

Creating an HTML file

HTML does not require any server or hosting platform to write and test HTML. We could simply create a file right on the computer.

HTML Files must be created with a .html extension, we could name the file whatever we want and after that, the file can be opened up in a Web Browser.

The Home page should always be called index.html, as that's the file that is shown as the top file or the root file of a website.

For example: clicking on http://www.codingblocks.com , Loads the index.html file first!