FULL FORM OF HTML: HTML: HyperText Markup Language What is HTML? HTML is a markup language for describing web documents (web pages) HTML stands for hypertext markup language A markup language is a set of markup tags HTML documents are described by HTML tags Each HTML tag describes the different document content Small HTML document < !DOCTYPE html > < html > < body > < h1 > My First Heading < /h1 > < p > My First Paragraph < /p > < /body > < /html > Result My First Heading My First Paragraph What are Web Browsers? The purpose of a web browser ( Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari ) is to read HTML documents and display them. The browser does not display the HTML tags but uses them to determine how to display the document.