Your Web browser interprets and displays Web pages. The power of the World Wide Web is seen when hypertext and hypermedia capabilities are added to Web files. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) gives documents hypertext and hypermedia capabilities by enabling page designers the capability of linking files to one another. These files are displayed by the browser when the page is retrieved. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) WWW documents are ASCII text documents created with HTML, a formatting language. When you use this standard language to create a page, you "tag" portions of text. This allows the native Web browser to format a page in a way that is appropriate for the display that the client is using. This enables a variety of browsers to display the same file.

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