HTML

American  

abbreviation

Computers.

1. 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.

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HTML British  

abbreviation

1. 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′ /

1. 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.

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HTML Cultural  

1. 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.

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Etymology

Origin of HTML

Coined in 1991 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee

Example Sentences

Within the Factiva database, most content is HTML, though other formats are available for export.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Now here was something different, something that felt new because it was old: a real invention, not just lines of HTML.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2021

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 • Jul. 1, 2021

Besides the computer science course that Alsup made him take, he already knew HTML, Javascript, CSS, BASIC, and a “tiny bit of” both Python and perl before he ever applied to clerk for Alsup.

From The Verge • Oct. 19, 2017

The site gives in particular a definition of protocols used for internationalization/localization: HTML; base character set; new tags and attributes; HTTP; language negotiation; URLs & other identifiers including non-ASCII characters; etc.

From Multilingualism on the Web by Lebert, Marie