HTML stands for hyper text markup language,is the predominant mark up language for web pages.it provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings,paragraphs,lists etc as well as for links quotes and other items.it allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms .it is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content.it can include or can load scripts in language such as java script which affect the behavior of HTML processors like web browsers and cascading to define appearance and layout text and other material. the w3c,maintainer of both html and css standards,encourages the use of css over explicit presentational mark up.hyper text markup language is the encoding scheme used to create and format a web document.a user need not be a expert programer to make use of html for creating hypertext documents that can be pt in the internet