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(HyperText Markup Language) The document format used on the Web. Web pages are built with tags embedded in the text that are coded in HTML. The tags define the page layout, fonts and hypertext...
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Definition: HTML
(HyperText Markup Language) The document format used on the Web. Web pages are built with tags embedded in the text that are coded in HTML. The tags define the page layout, fonts and hypertext links to other documents on the Web. Each link contains the URL (address) of a Web page residing on the same server or any server worldwide, hence "World Wide" Web (see hypertext). The HTML also defines all the graphic elements used on the page, which are separate files on a local or remote server.
HTML 2.0 was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) with a basic set of features, including interactive forms. Subsequent versions added more features such as blinking text, custom backgrounds and tables of contents. With each new version of HTML, Web browsers must be updated to take advantage of the new codes.
HTML Is Not a Programming Language
HTML is a markup language (the ML in HTML). A markup language can be thought of as a "presentation language," but it is not a programming language. You cannot "if this-do that" like you can in Java, JavaScript or C++. However, in order to make pages interactive, programming code can be embedded in an HTML page. For example, JavaScript is widely used alongside the HTML code to make the Web page function like an application. See JavaScript.
HTML was originally conceived as a simple markup language to render research documents on the Web. No one envisioned Web pages turning into multimedia applications, but HTML pages have been reworked and jury-rigged to make them function as such. As a result, the source code behind today's Web pages is often a complex concoction of tags and scripting.
HTML5
A major attempt to standardize HTML as a Web application platform is HTML Version 5. It consolidates features and adds numerous programming functions (see HTML5). See HTML tag, XML, XHTML and SGML.
World Wide Web Linking
Web pages are accessed by their Web address, which is known as a \"uniform resource locator\" (URL). A Web site's home page is an HTML document, which contains links to other HTML documents that can be stored on the same server or on a Web server anywhere in the world.
Web Server Fundamentals
Web browsers communicate with Web servers via the TCP/IP protocol. The browser sends HTTP requests to the server, which responds with HTML pages and possibly additional programs in the form of ActiveX controls or Java applets. See HTTP.
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