HTML

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Hypertext Markup Language

• A set of codes inserted into a file or document that is intended to display through a Web browser. HTML tells the browser how to display a document’s words and images as a Web page. Each markup symbol is referred to as an element or a tag.^[1]

• A language that uses tags to structure text into headings, paragraphs, lists and links. It tells a Web browser how to display text and images.^{[2] [3]}

• The underlying program structure of text on the World Wide Web.^[4]

• Developed by CERN of Geneva, Switzerland. The document standard of choice of Internet. (HTML+ adds support for multi-media.) Use in internet application.^[5]

• The tag-based ASCII language used to create pages on the Web.^[6]

• The standard code used to tell a browser how a web page should be displayed.

See also

• HTML
• Java
• JavaScript
• SGML
• SGML/HyTime
• XML

Footnotes

1. ^  Vinson & Elkins LLP Practice Support, EDD Glossary.
2. ^  Fios, E-Discovery Glossary, http://discoveryresources.org/01_electronic_discovery_glossary.html.
3. ^  RSI, Glossary.
4. ^  Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).
5. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.
6. ^  Kroll Ontrack, Glossary of Terms, http://www.krollontrack.com/glossaryterms.