HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. Originally defined as a simple application of SGML, HTML is now an international standard. The HTML specification is maintained mainly by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

HTML is a form of markup that is oriented toward the presentation of single-page text documents with specialized rendering software called a web browser.

HTML provides a means by which the document's main content can be annotated with various kinds of metadata and rendering hints, for example this text would be written as <b>for example this text</b>