html

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html - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  HTML
      n 1: a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them
           in developing hypertext documents [syn: hypertext markup language
           , hypertext mark-up language, HTML]

html - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Hypertext Markup Language
  HTML
  
     <hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard> (HTML) A hypertext
     document format used on the World-Wide Web.  HTML is built
     on top of SGML.  "Tags" are embedded in the text.  A tag
     consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or
     more parameters and a ">".  Matched pairs of directives, like
     "<title>" and "</title>" are used to delimit text which is to
     appear in a special place or style.
  
     Links to other documents are in the form
  
      <a href="http://machine.edu/subdir/file.html">foo</a>
  
     where "<a>" and "</a>" delimit an "anchor", "href" introduces
     a hypertext reference, which is most often a Uniform Resource Locator
      (URL) (the string in double quotes in the example
     above).  The link will be represented in the browser by the
     text "foo" (typically shown underlined and in a different
     colour).
  
     A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with a
     named anchor, e.g.:
  
      <a name="baz">
  
     The "fragment identifier", "baz", can be used in an href by
     appending "#baz" to the document name.
  
     Other common tags include <p> for a new paragraph, <b>..</b>
     for bold text, <ul> for an unnumbered list, <pre> for
     preformated text, <h1>, <h2> .. <h6> for headings.
  
     HTML supports some standard SGML national characters and
     other non-ASCII characters through special escape sequences
     , e.g. "&eacute;" for a lower case 'e' with an acute
     accent.  You can sometimes get away without the terminating
     semicolon but it's bad style.
  
     Most systems will ignore the case of tags and attributes but
     lower case should be used for compatibility with XHTML.
  
     The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the international
     standards body for HTML.
  
     Latest version: XHTML 1.0, as of 2000-09-10.
  
     (http://w3.org/MarkUp/).
  
     Character escape sequences (http://w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/ISOlat1.html)
     .
  
     See also weblint.
  
     (2006-01-19)
  

html - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  HTML
         HyperText Markup Language (Internet, WWW, SGML, RFC 1866/1942,
  HTML)