Definition of Hypertext markup language

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HyperText Markup Language
language used to write pages and sites for the Internet, HTML

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Hypertext Markup Language Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

WordNet 2.0
hypertext markup language

Noun
1. a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
(synonym) hypertext mark-up language, HTML
(hypernym) markup language

hEnglish - advanced version
hypertext markup language

hypertext markup language
n : a set of tags and rules (conforming to sgml) for using them in developing hypertext documents [syn: html]





Hypertext Markup Language Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

Electronic Statistics Textbook
HTML
Acronym for HyperText Markup Language. The markup language used for documents on the World Wide Web. HTML uses tags to identify elements of the document, such as text or graphics. HTML 2.0, defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), includes features of HTML common to all Web browsers as of 1995 and was the first version of HTML widely used on the World Wide Web. Future HTML development will be carried out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). HTML 3.2, the latest proposed standard, incorporates features widely implemented as of early 1996. Most Web browsers, notably Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, recognize HTML tags beyond those included in the present standard.


Hypertext Markup Language Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

A Glossary of Internet & PC Terminology
HTML
HyperText Markup Language - the text based language used to construct WWW pages. Interpreted by Web Browsers . This delightful masterpiece is a collection of HTML instructions which you can see using the View HTML Source option from your Browsers menu.

Jensen's Technology Glossary
HTML
An acronym for a HyperText Markup Language DTD .  HTML is the language used to tag various parts of a Web document so browsing software will know how to display that document's links, text, graphics and attached media. Your are viewing an HTML document at this moment. The popular HTML and the emerging HTML are subsets of the GML text scripting conceived in1969 IBM researchers depicting Generalized Markup Languages (and not-so-coincidentally the lead researchers were named Goldfarb, Mosher, and Lorie).   Between 1978 and 1987, Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb led the team that developed the SGML Standard GML that is became International Standard ISO 8879.  In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee led a team of particle physicists that invented the World Wide Web using a very small part of SGML that became the widely known and used scripting language known as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).  SGML is tremendously powerful but inefficient and complex. More...

JAVA (2EE-ENglos) ACRONIMS
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language. A markup language for hypertext documents on the Internet. HTML enables the embedding of images, sounds, video streams, form fields, references to other objects with URLs and basic text formatting.

DW and OLAP terms
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
A system of marking up, or tagging, a document so that it can be published on the World Wide Web. Documents prepared in HTML include reference graphics and formatting tags. You use a Web browser (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) to view these documents.

Noman's Java(TM) Glossary
HTML
HyperText Markup Language. This is a file format, based on SGML , for hypertext documents on the Internet. It is very simple and allows for the embedding of images, sounds, video streams, form fields and simple text formatting. References to other objects are embedded using URLs.

XML Acronym Demystifier
HTML

Hypertext Markup Language
HTML is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the World Wide Web. It is a non-proprietary format based upon SGML, and can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors - you type it in from scratch- to sophisticated WYSIWYG authoring tools.
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XHTML

Extensible HyperText Markup Language
XHTML is the reformulation of HTML 4 as an application of XML. XHTML 1.0 specifies three XML document types that correspond to the three HTML 4 DTDs: Strict, Transitional, and Frameset. XHTML 1.0 is the basis for a family of document types that subset and extend HTML.
XHTML 1.1 defines a new XHTML document type that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in Modularization of XHTML. The purpose of this document type is to serve as the basis for future extended XHTML 'family' document types, and to provide a consistent, forward-looking document type cleanly separated from the deprecated, legacy functionality of HTML 4 that was brought forward into the XHTML 1.0 document types. This document type is essentially a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict using XHTML Modules.
With the introduction of the XHTML family of modules and document types, the W3C has helped move the Internet content-development community from the days of malformed, non-standard markup into the well formed, valid world of XML . In XHTML 1.0, this move was moderated by a goal of providing for easy migration of existing, HTML 4 (or earlier) based content to XHTML and XML. With the advent of the XHTML modules defined in Modularization of XHTML, the W3C has removed support for deprecated elements and attributes from the XHTML family. These elements and attributes were largely presentation oriented functionality that is better handled via style sheets or client-specific default behavior. Going forward, XHTML family document types will be based upon this new, more structural functional collection. In this specification, the W3C's HTML Working Group has defined an initial document type based solely upon modules. This document type is designed to be portable to a broad collection of client devices, and applicable to the majority of Internet content. Content developers who base their content upon the functionality expressed in this specification can be confident that it will be consistently portable across XHTML family conforming user agents.
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Hypertext Markup Language Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

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HTML
HTMLcontraction of Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by angle brackets. HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.

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