Is HTML a programming language? No, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is not a programming language; it is a markup language used for structuring content on the web.

The programming language tags are used to identify and stylize a web page's specific structural elements. Jennifer Still/Business Insider Of all the coding languages, HTML is perhaps the simplest.

It’s considered a useful language for working with AI, and Statista reports it was the third most used language of 2023, behind JavaScript and HTML/CSS.

JetBrains asked developers to pick up to three languages they consider their primary programming language. In this context, JavaScript comes out on top (39%), followed Java (37%), and Python (31%).