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DRAFT - HTML4 Test Suite

The HTML4 Test Suite is provided as a way for vendors and page authors to test their browser's conformance to the W3C HTML 4.01 specification

This test suite is organized around the structure of the W3C HTML 4.01 specification.

Table of Contents

1. About the HTML 4 Specification -- There are no tests for this section
2. Introduction to HTML 4 -- There are no tests for this section
3. On SGML and HTML -- There are no tests for this section
4. Conformance: requirements and recommendations -- There are no tests for this section
5. HTML Document Representation - Character sets, character encodings, and entities
6. Basic HTML data types - Character data, colors, lengths, URIs, content types, etc.
7. The global structure of an HTML document - The HEAD and BODY of a document
8. Language information and text direction - International considerations for text
9. Text - Paragraphs, Lines, and Phrases
10. Lists - Unordered, Ordered, and Definition Lists
11. Tables
12. Links - Hypertext and Media-Independent Links
13. Objects, Images, and Applets
14. Style Sheets - Adding style to HTML documents
15. Alignment, font styles, and horizontal rules
16. Frames - Multi-view presentation of documents
17. Forms - User-input Forms: Text Fields, Buttons, Menus, and more
18. Scripts - Animated Documents and Smart Forms
19. SGML reference information for HTML - Formal definition of HTML and validation
20. SGML Declaration of HTML 4
21. Document Type Definition
22. Transitional Document Type Definition
23. Frameset Document Type Definition
24. Character entity references in HTML 4

1. Acknowledgements

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Feedback regarding the HTML4 Test Suite should be sent to www-html-testsuite@w3.org.

The HTML4 Test Suite is an effort of the World Wide Web Consortium.