What is HTML?

HTML, or Hyper Text Markup Language, is a coding language used to structure the content on a website.

It consists of elements that define your content. Each element has an open or closing tag.

Here’s a quick example.

Take the phrase: Dirigibles fly high.

We can define it as a header by using the h1 element like so:

<h3>Dirigibles fly high</h3>

This results in:

Dirigibles fly high

Or, we can define it as a paragraph element by enclosing the phrase with <p> tags like so:

<p>Dirigibles fly high</p>

This results in:

Dirigibles fly high

What does this mean for you?

Not a whole heck of a lot. Back in the day, if you wanted to create a website, you needed to learn HTML first.

And we still use HTML today—as a matter of fact, your Dirigible website is composed of hundreds and thousands of lines of HTML, but one of the great things about using Dirigible is that you don’t need to learn HTML to create a beautiful, fast and optimized website.