HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. This is the most basic building block of a webpage. It is used for creating and representing the webpage visually. HTML determines the content of the webpage. It does not support functionality. HTML is adding a mark up to standard text. HyperText stands for the links that associate web pages with each other, making World Wide Web what it is. HTML supports media such as visual images and static as well as dynamic websites can be viewed through it.HTML describes the structure and semantic content of the web document. When you look at a webpage, it contains more than just plan text. Consider the numerous fonts, font sizes, alphabets and colors. Webpages also comprise videos, images and background music. Websites let visitors customize their preferences too. Developers write webpages in HTML without which there would be no web pages. HTML specification essentially includes a single language that can be written with relaxed HTML syntax or stricter XML syntax.

HTML addresses the need of web applications and it is responsible for the content, not the formatting or style. For the latter, CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are needed. But the basics of any webpage is determined by HTML.

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