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Buckmajor Posted 17 years ago
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Hi there,

What would call this 'HTML'. I know the meaning stands for 'Hyper Text Markup Language' but would you call e.g. A application or tools.

Many thanks in advance
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If you are talking about it you just pronounce the individual letters. In writing you spell it out as you did in your question. asp : HTML is a language for describing web pages.

  • If you are talking about it you just pronounce the individual letters.
  • In writing you spell it out as you did in your question.
  • asp : HTML is a language for describing web pages.
  • * HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language * HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language * A markup language is a set of markup tags * HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages
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If you are talking about it you just pronounce the individual letters. In writing you spell it out as you did in your question.

Here is some example text from an HTML http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp:

HTML is a language for describing web pages.
* HTML stands for Hyper Text
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Hi RayH

Thank you for replying. You pretty spelt its meaning for HTML which I perfectly understand what it is but I need to know if you would call it 'An application' e.g. Would you name HTML a tag or application?

Thanks
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HTML can be interpreted by an application to produce visual output. A tag is simply an basic element of the language. HTML itself is a language. (Technically, a meta-language.)

Microsoft word native files are now written in HTML. They are rendered by the application Word to produce screen layout, print layout, web-page layout, outline layout, etc.

Web pages are written in HTML,
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****! That is an awesome breakdown of what HTML is. Gathering from your input, I found the answer I was looking for HTML 'language' instead of an application like you said.

So if I combine them e.g. HTML, XHTML, PHP, etc. Would you call it a 'Technical Language'?

Thanks again.
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I've never heard it described as a "technical language". Just use the terms that you found in your searches.

There are a multitude of computer languages (Basic, C, Java, Fortran, Pascal, COBOL, Ada, assembler....) which can be compiled. The output of compilation is an application. There are hybrids, dynamic languages, which are interpreted and compiled, but are still called computer lan
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Thanks guys and thanks heaps to you Alphecca.

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