Hello readers, Greetings. Today’s topic is “Is HTML a programming language?”. If you have any, literally any knowledge regarding computers, programming, then it is definite that you have heard about the debate regarding this topic.
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What is HTML?
Before diving into the topic. It is necessary to understand what actually is HTML in the first go. If you want to know more about what is HTML, its advantages, disadvantages, then we have a separate article discussing that. You can even read that article to know about the basics of HTML. We will discuss in short what is HTML then will dive into the topic. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a text markup language used to create HTML documents (Web Pages) for the Internet. HTML is a set of logical codes or tags (markup) that are used to define the Web browser how to present the information on the Web page.
What does Google Think About HTML?
You can clearly see that while searching on Google, it says HTML is a programming language. But the thing is, is it really that HTML is a programming language? There can be different types of points from different people. Some may think that HTML is a programming language meanwhile some may not think HTML is a programming language.
What is the truth?
Let’s analyze the name of HTML first. We can clearly see that the name says Hypertext Markup Language. Markup language! Clearly, as the name suggests that HTML is a markup language that is used to structure the web page to be rendered in the browser. As per the debate, I think there is nothing to debate about on this topic. Clearly, HTML is a markup language and also it can be considered as a programming language, can be but not fully. Repeating again, HTML is a markup language. Also can be considered as a programming language. HTML is also a computer language. It is used to structure the data and information on a web page. So, I think it is clearly not. HTML is a markup language and can be considered as a programming language. But necessarily, you should know that HTML doesn’t consist of any programming logic. HTML doesn’t also have a simple if/else, loop, or any other functions of programming language. And that’s why many people believe that HTML is not a programming language as it has nothing to do with programming logic.
Personally, I think, HTML is a Markup language, not a programming language.
