Namespace Glossary Definition

A Namespace is a named scope that groups identifiers so they can be distinguished from identifiers with the same name elsewhere.

Namespace is a Web document-structure concept used to define, organize, or describe content rendered by browsers.

Namespaces help avoid naming collisions in large codebases, libraries, APIs, and generated documentation.

Related concepts include Source Code, Syntax and Variable.

Authors, front-end developers, accessibility specialists, and technical writers use this concept when creating meaningful page structure and browser-readable content.

Related concepts include Hypertext Markup Language.

Additional Resource: MDN Web Docs Glossary.