HTML

American

abbreviation

Computers.

HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document. It is the standard protocol for formatting and displaying documents on the World Wide Web.

HTML British

abbreviation

hypertext markup language: a text description language that is used for electronic publishing, esp on the Internet

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HTML Scientific

/ āch′tē-ĕm-ĕl′ /

A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web.

HTML Cultural

An abbreviation for H yper t ext M arkup L anguage. This is the basic format for language that is used to construct the World Wide Web.

Etymology

Origin of HTML

Coined in 1991 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee

Example Sentences

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Mr. Starr’s team wrote the document in WordPerfect, but the congressional officials converted it to HTML, “the format used on the internet,” The Washington Post reported at the time.

From Washington Post

Website creator Mark O'Neill said it appeared "whoever made the video for the website ran the original text file through something that converted it into HTML".

From BBC

The code includes the first web browser and early versions of methods computers still use to talk with each other, including the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, known as HTTP, and HyperText Markup Language, known as HTML.

From New York Times

It’s a technique for putting code on a webpage that doesn’t necessarily use the stuff you might think of as the code that makes up most of the web like HTML, CSS, and so on.

From The Verge

A scraper understands HTML, and is able to parse and extract information from it.

From Nature

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