Markup Glossary

Browse 7 markup terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

7 Markup Terms

HTML: HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is the standard markup language for creating web pages. It defines the structure and content of a web document using a...
HTML Parser: A HTML Parser is a development concept used to shape how software is built, executed, or maintained in real systems. Developers rely on it to make code easier...
HTML Sanitization: A HTML Sanitization is a development concept used to shape how software is built, executed, or maintained in real systems. Developers rely on it to make code...
HTML Template: A HTML Template is a development concept used to shape how software is built, executed, or maintained in real systems. Developers rely on it to make code...
Markdown: Markdown is a lightweight markup language created by John Gruber in 2004 that uses plain text formatting syntax to create structured documents that can be...
Paragraph: In markup and text processing, a block-level element representing a self-contained unit of text, typically separated by blank lines. In HTML it is the <p> tag;...
XML: Extensible Markup Language — a text-based, self-describing data format that uses nested opening and closing tags to represent hierarchical data. Once the...