What is an HTML File?HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags
The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page
An HTML file must have an htm or html file extension
An HTML file can be created using a simple text editorA
web page is created using a language called, Hypertext Markup Language, better known as HTML Code. You can write your own coding within a plain text editor, such as Note Pad, or use an HTML editor, which will write the code for you.
HTML codes, also referred to as HTML tags, are enclosed by an opening angle bracket (<) and closing angle (>) brackets and may be written in capital or lower case letters.
The opening bracket is followed by an
element, which is a browser command, and ends with the closing bracket.
<
font size=
2>
An
element may also be followed by
attributes, which are words describing the properties of the element, and further instruct the browser.
Attributes are only contained in the opening HTML tags to the right of the element and are separated by a space and followed by an equal (=) sign.
The value follows the equal sign and is enclosed in quotes.