Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is a dialect of XML for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content.
Here you'll find links to documentation, examples, and tools to help you work with this powerful technology. For a quick overview, see the slides for the innovation fairs at Mozilla Summit 2013.
MathML reference
- MathML element reference
- Details about each MathML element and compatibility information for desktop and mobile browsers.
- MathML attribute reference
- Information about MathML attributes that modify the appearance or behavior of elements.
- MathML examples
- MathML samples and examples to help you understand how it works.
- Authoring MathML
- Suggestions and tips for writing MathML, including suggested MathML editors and how to integrate their output into Web content.
Getting help from the community
- View Mozilla forums...
- Matrix chat room
- Wiki used by Mozilla contributors
- W3C Math Home
- www-math w3.org mail archive
Tools
- W3C Validator
- Mathzilla Firefox add-on collection
- TeXZilla — Javascript LaTeX to MathML converter (live demo, Firefox OS webapp, Firefox add-on, using in a Web Page, JS program etc)
- LaTeXML - Convert LaTeX documents into HTML+MathML Web pages
- Web Equation - Turn handwritten equations into MathML or LaTeX
- MathJax - Cross-browser JavaScript display engine for mathematics. To force MathJax to use native MathML, try this Mozilla add-on, this Safari extension or this GreaseMonkey script.
Related topics
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
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| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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math | Chrome No support 24 — 25 | Edge No support No | Firefox
Full support
4
| IE No support No | Opera
No support
9.5 — 15
| Safari Full support 5.1 | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support 4 | Opera Android
No support
10.1 — 14
| Safari iOS Full support 5.1 | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.