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

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

I don’t think they know how to write HTML.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2016

Sometimes, images and other important features of the original cannot be captured in plain text alone, but can be captured in HTML, or other markup.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim