HTML (or XHTML) is the coding language used to create Web pages. Using HTML, you surround a block of text with codes that indicate how it should appear or what purpose it has in a document.
Here are a few places on the Web where you can learn more about HTML:
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HTML (or XHTML) is a coding language used to create Web pages. With HTML, you surround a block of text with “tags” that indicate how the text should appear or what purpose it has in a document. For example:
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph in an HTML document.
There is a “p tag” [...]