Definition

1. Noun:
   • A markup language for creating web pages: HTML is a standardized system of codes (tags) used to structure and format content on the World Wide Web. It defines the elements of a webpage, such as headings, paragraphs, links, and images.

Usage

• Noun:
  • The basic structure of every website is written in HTML.
  • To become a web developer, you must first learn HTML and CSS.
  • The file extension for a document containing this code is .html.

Advanced Usage

• "HTML5": Refers to the fifth and current major version of the HTML standard, which includes new features for multimedia and application development.
  • Modern websites use HTML5 to embed video and audio without needing additional plugins.

Variants and Related Words

• HTML element (n): An individual component of an HTML document, defined by a pair of tags (e.g., and for a paragraph).
• HTML tag (n): The code, enclosed in angle brackets (like ), used to mark the start and end of an HTML element.
• Hypertext Markup Language (n): The full name for HTML.

Synonyms

• Markup language: A broader category of languages that use tags to annotate text; HTML is a specific type of markup language.

Related Phrases

• To write HTML: The action of creating code using the HTML language.
  • She learned to write HTML in a single afternoon.
• HTML document: A file containing HTML code, meant to be displayed by a web browser.
  • Save your work as an HTML document.

Noun

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