# What is HTML?

HTML is the programming language for creating Web pages.

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**HTML** stands for **'Hyper Text Markup Language'**
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* HTML describes the structure of a Web page
* HTML pages are made up of **'tags'**
* HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
* Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to render the content of the page

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```markup
<header>
    Header Name
</header>

<paragraph>
    Paragraph Content
</paragraph>
```

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