Glossary

This page contains lists of general- and project- abbreviations, acronyms, and terminology.

General Terminology

.tm – Tcl Module
attribute – HTML name or name-value pair in a start-tag
CLI – Command-Line Interface
CSS – Cascading Style Sheet
DCO – Developer Certificate of Origin
DIY – Do It Yourself (self-help with instruction)
element – HTML marked-up content
empty attribute – HTML attribute consisting of only its name
empty element – HTML element with nothing between its start-tag and
end-tag, e.g. <samp></samp>
end tag – HTML element end marker; e.g., </element>
entity – HTML named data character
HTML – HyperText Markup Language^*
HTMS – HyperText Markup Shorthand
IDE – Integrated Development Environment
property – CSS colon-separated name-value pair found within an HTML
style attribute
SGML – Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8878:1986
start tag – HTML element start marker; e.g., <element>
tag – element delimiter
tag name – word for the element being delimited
void element – HTML element not allowed to have content or an end tag; e.g., <void/>
XHTML – Extensible HyperText Markup Language
XML – Extensible Markup Language