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HTML Basics: Introduction to HTML

This article is a gentle explanation of HTML, the basic building block of the Web. 

January 1, 1998  
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ypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the basic building block of the World Wide Web page. It uses a pre-defined set of tags to format text, create hyperlinks to other places, and insert graphic images. When a web browser opens an HTML file, it displays the page based on the tags.

All HTML files begin with an HTML tag. The tag looks like this:

<html>

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