People are only just realising what HTML stands for and they’re baffled

HTML is one in a long list of technological acronyms many will have seen online but can’t work out what they stand for.

This is particular the case for HTML, which, funnily enough, is being used on this very webpage.

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In fact, it is a fixture on 94.5% of all websites.

The acronym is conveniently used so we don’t have to spell out what it stands for: “Hyper Text Markup Language”.

Now we know what it stands for, what exactly is it?

Simply put, HTML is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content.

Consisting of a number of elements, Hyper Text Markup Language can be used to enclose different parts of content to make it show up in a particular way.

The main parts of our element include the opening tag, which states where the element begins or starts to take effect.

The closing tag is identical, though it includes a forward slash before the element name, and states where the element ends.

The third element is the content. Unsurprisingly, this is simply the element’s content, and is in text form.

The element itself is the final stage, comprising the opening tag, closing tag, and the content.

A number of Twitter users comically played on the public’s lack of awareness of what the acronym stands for, posing the question: “What does HTML stand for?

“Wrong answers only.”

The question inspired a number of chucklesome responses.

One offered: “How to make love.”

Another quipped: “Hi to my lover.”

“How to make lasagne”, another weighed in.