MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in al modern browsers.
MathJax allows you to include mathematics in your web pages, either using LaTeX, MathML, or AsciiMath notation, and the mathematics will be processed using javascript to produce HTML, SVG or MathML equations for viewing in any modern browser. It is text-based, rather than using images or Flash, so users can copy and paste the math into their own editors.
There are two ways to access MathJax: the easiest way is to use the copy of MathJax available from the distributed network service at cdn.mathjax.org, but you can also download and install a copy of MathJax on your own server, or use it locally on your hard disk (with no need for network access).
To use MathJax from the MathJax Content Delivery Network (CDN), you need to do two things:
- Link MathJax into the web pages that are to include mathematics.
- Put mathematics into your web pages so that MathJax can display it. You accomplish the first step by putting
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML"> </script> into the <head> block of your document. (It can also go in the <body> if necessary, but the head is to be preferred.) This will load the latest version of MathJax from the distributed server, and configure it to recognize mathematics in both TeX and MathML notation, and ask it to generate its output using MathML if the browser supports that well enough, and otherwise use HTML-with-CSS to display the mathematics. This is one of the most general configurations, and should suffice for most people’s needs.
For more information, please go to
mathjax.org