Description

HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is the basic language of the web. It takes a programmer or designer's ideas and code and presents it in a user-friendly manner. In effect, HTML makes the world wide web go 'round.

Transcript

Hi! This is Mike Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome to your butterscotch.com tutorial on what is HTML. You see it all over the Internet, HTML this, HTML that, HTML pages, HTML 4, HTML 5, but what is it? HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language. And what it does is it provides the format, the structure for webpages, where are the headings, where are the paragraphs, where are the lists, where are the quotes, what’s bold, what’s italic. You can see here a Mark-up Language when you’re a professor used to mark your term paper with red or blue ink, they were marking it up. But in this case HTML gives a way to format webpages so if you look at butterscotch.com, here it is right here but if you look at the HTML code, here it is right here. So, what the HTML code does is it describes and lays-out how the page will look, so you can go from this to this. They’re both equal, it’s just we see this one but this is what determines what we see. That’s HTML and that’s all there is to it.