16.2 HTML and CSS
A webpage is created using a language called Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The term hypertext refers to the fact that the information is not organized linearly like a book. Instead, you can embed links to other information and jump from one page to another as needed. A more accurate term would be hypermedia, because HTML handles many types of information in addition to text, including images, audio, and video.
The term markup language refers to the fact that the primary elements of the language take the form of tags that you insert into a document to annotate the information stored there. It’s as if you took a printed document and marked it up with extra notation to specify other details, as shown in FIGURE 16.3.
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