The first step to getting familiar with a new language is to write a simple “Hello World” program.
**[HTML (Hypertext markup language)](https://www.educative.io/answers/what-is-html)** is the text-based approach used for defining web-page layouts.

# Code examples
In the code below, a simple [boilerplate](https://www.educative.io/answers/what-is-a-boilerplate-code) code for HTML is included, and we can directly write "Hello World" within the `<body>` tags or use different [HTML elements](https://www.educative.io/answers/what-is-an-element-in-html) for this purpose such as paragraph tags, bold tag, heading tags etc.


How to write "Hello World" in HTML

The first step to getting familiar with a new language is to write a simple “Hello World” program. HTML (Hypertext markup language) is the text-based approach used for defining web-page layouts. 