# Template syntax The Angular application manages what the user sees and can do, achieving this through the interaction of a component class instance (the *component*) and its user-facing template. You may be familiar with the component/template duality from your experience with model-view-controller (MVC) or model-view-viewmodel (MVVM). In Angular, the component plays the part of the controller/viewmodel, and the template represents the view. This page is a comprehensive technical reference to the Angular template language. It explains basic principles of the template language and describes most of the syntax that you'll encounter elsewhere in the documentation. Many code snippets illustrate the points and concepts, all of them available in the . {@a html} ## HTML in templates HTML is the language of the Angular template. Almost all HTML syntax is valid template syntax. The `