The document provides an overview of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), which is the standard markup language used to create web pages and web applications. It describes HTML as a language used to describe the structure of a web page using markup tags, and that HTML documents contain plain text content along with these tags. It also provides examples of common HTML tags like <h1> for headings, <p> for paragraphs, and <img> for images, and how they are used to structure and layout the visible content of a web page.