What is HTML

• HTML is a document-layout and hyperlink-specification language, A language used to design the layout of a document and to specify the hyperlinks.

• HTML tells the browser how to display the contents of a hypertext document, a document including text, mage and other support media. 
• The language also tells how to make a document interactive through special hyperlinks.
• Though HTML is a language that supports multimedia and new page layout features yet it has its limitations. 
• HTML is not a word processing tool; it is not a desktop publishing solution or even a programming language. it is just a page- layout and hyperlink specification language.

 "HTML Means-"
 H-Hyper
 T-Text
 M-Markup
 L-Language

HTML is  a complete code package that allows the user to create web pages that contain both text and graphics. it is a simple mark-up language that describes the structure and behavior of the web documents.
All the web browsers are designed to understand and interpret this language.
Here HYPERTEXT is apiece of ordinary text that has been spruced up with a special feature of linking to other documents or webpages. So, when you click on the hypertext, it opens new web page.

MARKUP LANGUAGE: It is a language that uses special symbols called "Tags" to mark-up a text document that instructs the browser how to display the text.