What is HTML

• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
• Simplified subset of Standardized Markup Language (SGML)
• A Document-layout and hyperlink-specification language
• Embedded directions on how to display contents of a document
• Means to produce documents for quick and easy delievery
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was chartered to standardize HTML
• Last official release is HTML 4.0