A command that specifies how a document, or a portion of the document, should be formatted In HTML most tags consist of an opening and a closing tag and look like this: <em>emphasized text</em> The text between these tags will be displayed on screen in italics and audibly emphasized by a screenreader
a) [IBM] A mechanism used to identify certain attributes having some bearing on handling of character data Some examples are character set identifier, code page identifier, language identifier, country indentifier, and encoding scheme identifier b) Identification of objects, which can be handled independently of the object (like a price tag on a banana) The tag may contain information or only point to it (for example, if the information is very complex like a rule to sort French text) In this case the tag is an identification of information about the object (the text in French) Tags can be held in data dictionaries or in close connection to the data (for example in communications, where data blocks are preceeded by information about the data)
A tag is a small piece of card or cloth which is attached to an object or person and has information about that object or person on it. Staff wore name tags. baggage tags. see also dog tag, price tag
An SGML element name enclosed in angle brackets (<>), used to mark up the semantics or structure of a document <Para> is a tag in DocBook used to mark the beginning of a paragraph
HTML code is comprised of a series of tags that instruct a browser how to render the information contained on the page For example, you would use the following tags
a code inserted into a file or data structure indicating how something is to be interpreted TCP/IP - (Transmission Control/Internet Protocol) a standard format for transmitting data in packets from one computer to another Telnet - a command that lets you use your computer as a terminal on another computer through a network Thread - a task or process in a computer program that uses multitasking TIA - abbreviation for "thanks in advance" TIFF - (Tag Image File Format) a format for storing bit-mapped images TN - see Telnet Token Ring - a type of network in which the computers are connected together in a ring Transfer Rate - the rate at which data is transferred from one place to another Trojan Horse - a computer program with a hidden destructive function such as erasing hard disk at a specific time TTYL - email abbreviation for "talk to you later" Twiddle - (slang) to make small changes in settings [back to top]
{f} furnish with a label or tag; characterize; append, attach; join in, follow along, accompany (Informal)
If you tag something, you attach something to it or mark it so that it can be identified later. Professor Orr has developed interesting ways of tagging chemical molecules using existing laboratory lasers