HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It’s a standard markup language used for creating web pages and web applications. It describes the structure of a website in terms of elements like headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes, images, etc. It also describes how content on a website should be structured and represented to the user or browser.
HTML basics include understanding HTML tags like <!DOCTYPE html>, <html>, <head>, <body>, etc., which are used in every web page. They define the structure of a webpage, and also elements such as titles, paragraphs, links, images, lists, tables, forms, etc.
The main uses or benefits of using HTML include creating basic websites, creating complex ones with multiple pages, embedding multimedia content like images and videos, making interactive web applications (like Google Search), developing mobile-responsive websites, etc.