What is a Web page?

About Web pages

A web page is a specially formatted document that is created so that Internet browsers can read it, interpret it, and display it in a readable format for you to see.

Web pages live on Web servers, and these servers pass the web pages to the Internet browsers of users, which then display them. Web pages can be very simple or very complex, but they all have similarities in the language that they are created in.

The language of a web page is HTML: HyperText Markup Language, and this is the language which Internet browsers read and then translate into what you see on the screen. HTML is the simplest of web page languages, and every web page you see has some snippet of HTML in it.

There are other languages that can make up web pages, like XML, PHP, and CSS, but HTML is the underpinning for the whole existence of web pages.

Websites are made up of one or more (usually much more) than one web page.