HTML is not a programming language because it fails to meet several functional criteria. Nevertheless, HTML coding is valuable beyond that pedantic debate.

In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and provides the backbone for the biggest websites on the internet.

HTML and XML are structural foundations of every website or application. It is crucial that developers learn — and master — both.