What exactly is meant by the term "markup"?

[Benedizione]

"if you want to have your own markup for the menu..."

I'm sure this sounds real dumb to any computer tech but since I am not a computer tech I would like to know what is meant by this word? I see it a lot on here.

[jscheuer1]

I am not certain if markup is a technically defined term in a given context or not. In the context you give:

"if you want to have your own markup for the menu..."

I take it to mean (and I think it was me who wrote that originally) the HTML portion of the code.

If that is, as I suspect, from the omni slide menu demo page, it means that you can stop the script from creating any HTML for the menu and supply your own instead.

[djr33]

"markup code" or "markup language" refer to html, usually.
I suppose it means something like "text with some code, but not quite programming".

[nekit]

"markup code" or "markup language" refer to html, usually.
I suppose it means something like "text with some code, but not quite programming".

difficult language of programing! but...... I hate this!

[Twey]

Markup is simply that: text that has been "marked up" to distinguish parts of it from others.

[mburt]

Markup is simply that: text that has been "marked up" to distinguish parts of it from others.

Of course: it simply defines the different ways of outputting data.
Think of it as bbcode. How would you be able to say what is bold, italics, underline? You have to have a start and an end. It all works in this way.