what is Hyper text markup language (HTML)
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the language for specifying the static content of Web pages (based on SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language). HyperText refers to the fact that Web pages are more than just text can contain multimedia, provide links for jumping within the same document & to other documents. Markup refers to the fact that it works by augmenting text with special symbols (tags) that identify the document structure and content type.