HTML, an
acronym for
HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant
markup language for
web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document—by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc.—and to supplement that text with
interactive forms, embedded
images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of "
tags" that are surrounded by
angle brackets. HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and
semantics of a document, and can include embedded
scripting language code (such as
JavaScript) that can affect the behavior of
Web browsers and other HTML processors.