Reflection on HTML

To an ordinary layman like me, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) appears to be a hyper-scientific term which implies high-end computing knowledge as the acronym is associated with assorts of impressive electronic documents that are found on the World Wide Web. In fact, HTML is not a complicated programming language but just a collection of codes written in everyday US English. HTML is just a basic framework which confines the format of the web content so that it displays in the exact appearance that the writer wants it to be. For any text, images, sounds or videos to be displayed in a web document, the writer only needs to put them in markups of a pair of pointed brackets “<” and “>”. These contents need instructions in pointed brackets called tags that direct the exact display format, and most tags consist of opened <tag> and closed </tag> instructions. HTML is simple to learn and use, and it only requires us not to commit any typo mistakes. Despite its easiness, the effectiveness of HTML is boundless. It can enrich a webpage by empowering it the access to multitudes of related web documents via a creation of hyperlinks. Thus, it’s really worthwhile to invest time in learning what HTML can bring about in constructing a webpage.