What is HTML?

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" at the beginning of this paragraph
and a closing "p tag" at the end.
These tags tell the Web browser how to display this text.</p>

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