HTML

HyperText Markup Language.The language used to create World Wide Web pages, with hyperlinks and markup for text formatting (different heading styles, bold, italic, numbered lists, insertion of images, etc.). HTML n. HyperText MarkUp Language. The standard language for publishing text on the World Wide Web. Using an ASCII text editor or HTML editor, an author "Marks Up" text with formatting codes and codes for hypertext links to other material. These codes are interpreted by the user's browser, not the publisher's server, with the intent of providing device-independent output. As such, HTML was not intended to precisely control page layout, which fonts are used, etc. Standards include original HTML (sometimes called "1.0" or "strict"), HTML 2.0 (just now completely standardized), an ongoing HTML 3.0 specification process, uncompleted, and Netscape HTML 2.5/3.0, proprietary dialects. HTML 3.0 is changing some definitions (the paragraph separator is now the paragraph encapsulator, for example), but some would have you believe that HTML 3.0 is 100% faithful, unchanging and absolute. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). A system of marking up, or tagging, a document so it can be published on the World Wide Web. An author incorporates HTML markup in his or her document to define the function (as distinct from the appearance) of different text elements. The appearance of these text elements is not defined at the authoring stage; instead, formatting is applied when a browser decides how it is going to display the text elements.