What is HTML?

A Brief Overview of HTML's Purpose in Creating Web Pages.

Context

Think of a document that you would create in a word processor like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. They usually consist of more than one style. They use different font sizes to indicate different sections of the text, like headers, main content, footers, table of contents, captions, etc.

Whereas a human can simply look at a document and understand the difference between a heading and a paragraph, computers have no such intuition. For a browser to correctly render a web page, it must be explicitly told what each piece of content is.

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