HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
As its name suggests, HTML is a collection of formatting commands that create hypertext documents--Web pages, to be exact. When you point your Web browser to a URL, the browser interprets the HTML commands embedded in the page and uses them to format the page's text and graphic elements. HTML commands cover many types of text formatting (bold and italic text, lists, headline fonts in various sizes, and so on), and also have the ability to include graphics and other nontext elements.
Development and maintenance of HTML standards is coordinated by the World Wide Web Consortium.
See also: browser, HTML 3.0, hypertext, URL, VRML
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