hypertext mark-up language
n : a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them
in developing hypertext documents [syn: hypertext markuplanguage, HTML]
hypertext markup language
n : a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them
in developing hypertext documents [syn: hypertextmark-up language, HTML]
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) A hypertext
document format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is built
on top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag
consists of a "<", a "directive" (case insensitive), zero or
more parameters and a ">". Matched pairs of directives, like
"" and "" are used to delimit text which is to
appear in a special place or style.
Links to other documents are in the form
foo
where "A" and "/A" delimit an "anchor", "HREF" introduces a
hypertext reference, which is most often a Uniform ResourceLocator (URL) (the string in double quotes in the example
above). The link will be represented in the browser by the
text "foo" (typically shown underlined and in a different
colour).
A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with a
named anchor, e.g.:
The "fragment identifier", "baz", can be used in an HREF by
appending "#baz" to the document name.
Other common tags include
for headings.
HTML supports some standard SGMLnational characters and
other non-ASCII characters through special escapesequences, e.g. "é" for a lower case 'e' with an acute
accent. You can sometimes get away without the terminating
semicolon but it's bad style.
The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the international
standards body for HTML.
Latest version: XHTML 1.0, as of 2000-09-10.
Home (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/).
Character escape sequences
(http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/ISOlat1.html).
See also weblint.
(2000-09-10)
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