HTML

abbreviation for

, 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. Compare http.

HTML

abbreviation for

1. hypertext markup language: a text description language that is used for electronic publishing, esp on the Internet

HTML

/ 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.

HTML

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 .

Word History and Origins

Origin of HTML¹

Coined in 1991 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee