What Is HTML?

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The World Wide Web is constructed from many millions of individual
pages, and those pages are, in general, written in Hypertext Markup
Language, better known as HTML.
That name gives away a lot of information about the nature of HTML.
We use it to mark up our text documents so that web browsers know
how to display them and to define hypertext links within them to provide
navigation within or between them.
Anyone who (like me) can remember the old pre-WYSIWYG word processing
programs will already be familiar with text markup. Most of
these old applications required that special characters be placed at the
beginning and end of sections of text that you wanted to be displayed
as (for instance) bold, italic, or underlined text.

What Tools Are Needed to Write HTML?

Because the elements used in HTML markup employ only ordinary keyboard
characters, all you really need is a good text editor to construct
HTML pages. Many are available, and most operating systems have at
least one such program already installed. If you’re using some version of
Windows, for example, the built-in Notepad application works just fine,
or you can use Text Edit on Macs.