The term Html stand for HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE.It is a markup languageused mainly for creating web documents,

HTML Is quite easy to learn and use. if you look closelyto each parts of its name you will find the name (HTML) more meaningful.

First, By the term Hyper means that something which is active. So in this context i.e. in web document it simply mean that if you would like to view something on a web document, then you can move immediately to it without following any set order.

The Second term Text points to the text file you will be dealing with in HTML.

HTML has its own formatting commands commonly known as tags or elements. These tags are used to markup the content of web pages.

The term Markup comes from the fact that, HTML is used to markup the contents of web pages.

By the term Language we mean that you will be dealing with a language along with all its syntax (in HTML you can call them tags.)

* You must know that HTML is not a full fleged programming languagelike BASIC, etc. IT is a markup language used to create web documents.