HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

Markup

"The markup … can be interpreted by a device … to control how a document should look when printed or displayed on a monitor. A marked-up document thus contains two types of text: text to be displayed and markup language on how to display it."
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Examples

            
              

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

Page Structure

            
              <!DOCTYPE html>
              <html lang="en">
              <head>
                
                
                
                Document
              </head>
              <body>

              <!-- Visible content goes here -->

              </body>
              </html>
            
          

HTML attributes

            
              A 150 by 150 pixel square

              <!--
                img — The image tag is used to create an image.
                src — The attribute to tell the img tag where to find the resource.
                https://via.placeholder.com/150x150 — The value of the resource.
                alt — The attribute for alternative text.
              -->
            
          

MDN & Semantic HTML

MDN's Semantic Elements list