Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) A {Hypertext} document
format used on the {World-Wide Web}. Built on top of {SGML}.
"Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a
"directive" (case insensitive), zero or more parameters and a
">". Matched pairs of directives, like "
" and</div><div class ="Idiom" > "" are used to delimit text which is to appear in a special place or style.
Links to other documents are in the form
where "A", "/A" delimit an "anchor", "HREF" introduces a
hypertext reference, which in this case is a {Uniform Resource
Locator} (URL) (the thing in double quotes in the example
above). The text "foo" will be the label appearing on the
link in the browser.
A certain place within an HTML document can be marked with a
named anchor, e.g.:
The "fragment identifier", "baz", can be used in an HREF by
appending "#baz" to the document name.
Other common tags include
for a new paragraph, ..
preformated text,
, .. for headings.
{HTML} supports some standard {SGML} {national characters} and
other non-{ASCII} characters through special {escape
sequences}, e.g. "é" for a lower case 'e' with an acute
accent. You can sometimes get away without the terminating
semicolon but it's bad style.
The {World-Wide Web Consortium} is the standards body for
HTML.
See also {HTML:}, {weblint}.
{HTML 3.0 draft specification
(http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html)}.
{One of the definition documents
(http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/htmldoc.html)}.
{Character escape sequences
(http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/ISOlat1.html)}.
(1997-12-07)