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HTML

Meaning in web development, with examples

/ˌeɪtʃ tiː em ˈel/abbreviationCore term

In web development, HTML means: HyperText Markup Language: the standard language for describing the structure and content of a web page, such as headings, paragraphs, links and images.

In Turkish: HTML, hipermetin işaretleme dili

How it is used

Said letter by letter. Developers write and validate HTML and talk about HTML files, HTML templates and the HTML a framework outputs. People still say HTML5, although the standard is now simply updated as the HTML Living Standard.

Example sentences

  1. Can you check the HTML? The button is outside the form.

  2. The server returns plain HTML, so the page loads fast even without JavaScript.

Common collocations

  • write HTML
  • valid HTML
  • HTML file
  • HTML template
  • HTML element
  • elementA single building block of an HTML page, such as a paragraph, image or button, usually written as an opening tag, content and a closing tag.
  • tagA piece of HTML code in angle brackets, such as <h1> or </p>, that marks where an element starts or ends.
  • attributeExtra information written inside an opening HTML tag as a name and a value, such as href in a link or alt in an image.
  • semantic HTMLHTML that uses elements according to their meaning, such as nav, main, article and button, instead of generic div and span elements for everything.
  • CSSCascading Style Sheets: the language that controls how HTML looks, including colors, fonts, spacing, layout and animations.

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