Definition

Noun: - A standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages: Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) is the standard markup language used to create and structure content on the web. It consists of a series of elements or "tags" that enclose content to define its meaning and layout.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • To build a basic webpage, you must write code in Hypertext Mark-up Language.
  • The document's structure is defined by Hypertext Mark-up Language tags like <h1> for headings and <p> for paragraphs.
  • Modern web development often involves styling Hypertext Mark-up Language with CSS.

Advanced Usage

• "Conforming to SGML": This phrase indicates that HTML is an application of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a broader international standard for defining markup languages. This highlights HTML's formal, rule-based structure.
  • The original specification for Hypertext Mark-up Language described it as an SGML application.

Variants and Related Words

• HTML: This is the universally common initialism for Hypertext Mark-up Language.
  • Learning HTML is the first step in web development.
• Markup Language (n): A broader category of languages, like HTML or XML, that use tags to annotate text within a document.
  • HTML is the most well-known markup language for the web.

Synonyms

• Web Page Markup Language: A descriptive synonym emphasizing its primary use.
• HTML: The direct and most frequent synonym.

Related Phrases

• HTML Document: A text file written in and structured by Hypertext Mark-up Language.
  • The browser reads the HTML document to render the webpage.
• HTML Element: A component of an HTML document, defined by a start tag, content, and an end tag.
  • An anchor element (<a>) in Hypertext Mark-up Language creates a hyperlink.
• HTML Tag: The syntactic marker (e.g., , ) used within Hypertext Mark-up Language to denote an element's start and end.
  • You must close most HTML tags for the code to be valid.

Noun

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