Hypertext Markup Language

[¦hī·pər‚tekst ′märk‚əp ‚laŋ·gwij] (computer science) The language used to specifically encode the content and format of a document and to link documents on the World Wide Web. Abbreviated HTML.

Hypertext Markup Language

(hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard)(HTML) A hypertextdocument format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is builton top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tagconsists of a "". Matched pairs of directives, like"" and "" are used to delimit text which is toappear in a special place or style.

Links to other documents are in the form

foo

where "" and "" delimit an "anchor", "href" introducesa hypertext reference, which is most often a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) (the string in double quotes in the exampleabove). The link will be represented in the browser by thetext "foo" (typically shown underlined and in a differentcolour).

A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with anamed anchor, e.g.:

The "fragment identifier", "baz", can be used in an href byappending "#baz" to the document name.

Other common tags include

for a new paragraph, ..for bold text,

for an unnumbered list,

 forpreformated text, , 
 .. 
 for headings.

HTML supports some standard SGML national characters andother non-ASCII characters through special escape sequences, e.g. "é" for a lower case 'e' with an acuteaccent. You can sometimes get away without the terminatingsemicolon but it's bad style.

Most systems will ignore the case of tags and attributes butlower case should be used for compatibility with XHTML.

The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the internationalstandards body for HTML.

Latest version: XHTML 1.0, as of 2000-09-10.

http://w3.org/MarkUp/.

Character escape sequences.

See also weblint.

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Synonyms for hypertext markup language

noun a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents

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