“An HTML snippet” is correct. Why are there two variants of an indefinite article in French? For a noun that starts with a vowel sound “an” is always a consonant. You won’t see the next letter as “a” in the past. When the H was dropped (for the same reason “the hotel”..n’s use was correct) . For

the same reason “an hotel” is still correct, like it was customary to drop the H.

“An HTML snippet” is correct. Why are there two variants of an indefinite article in French? For a noun that starts with a vowel sound “an” is always a consonant. You won’t see the next letter as “a” in the past. When the H was dropped (for the same reason “the hotel”..n’s use was correct) . For

the same reason “an hotel” is still correct, like it was customary to drop the H.