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

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

The open web, free software, open source, HTML, access to knowledge, Wikipedia, GitHub … all prioritized giving users the tools, signals, and expertise to navigate the universe of information on their own terms.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2019

Gran: I make my students buy a web host and a domain name and build it with HTML, from scratch.

From The Verge • Apr. 5, 2019

Please run these checks before submitting your HTML; we can generally fix it for you, but it may take us a lot of work.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim