How do you learn HTML? HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It represents the lingua franca of the Internet. Learning it, in all of its variations, is a mind boggling task. But you can get started on it with a simple editor and a browser running locally. You first have to learn the syntax of the language.

There are a number of excellent introductions to HTML. One is found at W3C School – i.e. the standards body for the Internet. W3C stands for the World Wide Web Consortium, and it has a web site at www.w3c.org that contains the standards. Their introduction to HTML can be found at introduction.