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HTML

 (āch′tē-ĕm-ĕl′)
n.
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.

[H(yper)t(ext) M(arkup) L(anguage).]
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HTML

abbreviation for
(Computer Science) hypertext markup language: a text description language that is used for electronic publishing, esp on the internet
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HTML

HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document, the standard for documents on the World Wide Web.
[1990–95]
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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language; the format that all web pages are set up in.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.HTML - a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documentsHTML - a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
markup language - a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document
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Translations

HTML

N ABBR =hypertext markup languageHTML m
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HTML

[ˈeɪtʃˌtiːɛmˈɛl] (=hypertext markup language)
nHTML m
modif [document] → en langage HTML
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HTML

(Comput) abbr of hypertext mark-up languageHTML
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Early adopters recognized that most end-users were paralyzed by the unfamiliar interface provided by Web applications built on HTML. Because first-generation Web applications relied solely on HTML, even simple tasks would reload the browser with a new Web page after every mouse click-clearly limiting business productivity.
As a subset of SGML, HTML is useful for publishing documents on Internet Web sites and does not require DTDs to be created.
Since late June of last year, companies filing their financial information have been able to submit most filings in either ASCII or HTML; at some point HTML will replace ASCII in all filings, but the migration is not yet mandatory.
The same concepts and commands are used in each application, regardless of whether a final document is prepared in the original file format or converted to HTML.
The World Wide Web (WWW) is written in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), a library of "tags" that, when woven together, create Web pages.
XML has numerous advantages over HTML. It is easily transformable and can describe any type of content.