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abbreviation Computers.

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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Words nearby HTML

HT, HTLV, HTLV-1, HTLV-2, HTLV-3, HTML, Hts., http, hu, HUAC, Hua Guofeng

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How to use HTML in a sentence

He is as conversant with HTML and Git as with metaphor and the twists and turns of plotting.
Vikram Chandra Is A Novelist Who's Obsessed With Writing Computer Code|Jane Ciabattari|August 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As the aging homepage wallpaper peeled away revealing the html beneath, Strong Bad and the gang finally returned to the Internet.
Homestar Runner, Trogdor the Burninator, and the Birth of the Internet|Rich Goldstein|April 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They have blocks of HTML inexplicably wrapped in script tags.
Obamacare’s Rollout Is a Disaster That Didn’t Have to Happen|Gregory Ferenstein|October 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Eventually, they start taking Google courses and Nick starts understanding HTML and coding.
‘The Internship’ Reviewed Through the Eyes of The Daily Beast’s Intern|Jean Trinh|June 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Just choose your charity and the size of the banner you want to use, then copy the HTML code and paste it onto your site.
Make a Difference with Friends and Family|Daily Beast Promotions|April 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Although some of the diacritics are not found in ISO-8859-1, they can be rendered as html numeric entities.
In Court and Kampong|Hugh Clifford
These have been kept in the html version to align the page numbers.
Scottish Ghost Stories|Elliott O'Donnell
Detailed images in the html version of this e-book are linked to larger versions of the illustration.
A Journal from Japan|Marie Carmichael Stopes
Transliterations of Greek and Hebrew words are available as hover tags in the html version of the text.
Early Travels in Palestine|Arculf et al.
In the html version this has left blank pages where page numbers are omitted.
Rowlandson the Caricaturist. First Volume|Joseph Grego

British Dictionary definitions for HTML

HTML

abbreviation for

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

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Scientific definitions for HTML

HTML

[ āch′tē-ĕm-ĕl′ ]

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.

Cultural definitions for HTML

HTML

An abbreviation for Hypertext Markup Language. This is the basic format for language that is used to construct the World Wide Web.