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Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0

September 22, 1995

T. Berners-Lee (1)

D. Connolly (1)

(1) MIT/W3C

• Introduction
  • Scope
  • Conformance
    • Documents
    • Feature Test Entities
    • User Agents
• Terms
• HTML as an Application of SGML
  • SGML Documents
  • HTML Lexical Syntax
    • Data Characters
    • Tags
    • Names
    • Attributes
    • Comments
  • HTML Public Text Identifiers
  • Example HTML Document
• HTML as an Internet Media Type
  • text/html media type
  • HTML Document Representation
    • Undeclared Markup Error Handling
    • Conventional Representation of Newlines
• Document Structure
  • Document Element: HTML
  • Head: HEAD
    • Title: TITLE
    • Base Address: BASE
    • Keyword Index: ISINDEX
    • Link: LINK
    • Associated Meta-information: META
    • Next Id: NEXTID
  • Body: BODY
  • Headings: H1 ... H6
  • Block Structuring Elements
    • Paragraph: P
    • Preformatted Text: PRE
      • Example and Listing: XMP, LISTING
    • Address: ADDRESS
    • Block Quote: BLOCKQUOTE
  • List Elements
    • Unordered List: UL, LI
    • Ordered List: OL
    • Directory List: DIR
    • Menu List: MENU
    • Definition List: DL, DT, DD
  • Phrase Markup
    • Idiomatic Elements
      • Citation: CITE
      • Code: CODE
      • Emphasis: EM
      • Keyboard: KBD
      • Sample: SAMP
      • Strong Emphasis: STRONG
      • Variable: VAR
    • Typographic Elements
      • Bold: B
      • Italic: I
      • Teletype: TT
    • Anchor: A
  • Line Break: BR
  • Horizontal Rule: HR
  • Image: IMG
• Characters, Words, and Paragraphs
  • The HTML Document Character Set
• Hyperlinks
  • Accessing Resources
  • Activation of Hyperlinks
  • Simultaneous Presentation of Image Resources
  • Fragment Identifiers
  • Queries and Indexes
  • Image Maps
• Forms
  • Form Elements
    • Form: FORM
    • Input Field: INPUT
      • Text Field: INPUT TYPE=TEXT
      • Password Field: INPUT TYPE=PASSWORD
      • Check Box: INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX
      • Radio Button: INPUT TYPE=RADIO
      • Image Pixel: INPUT TYPE=IMAGE
      • Hidden Field: INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN
      • Submit Button: INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT
      • Reset Button: INPUT TYPE=RESET
    • Selection: SELECT
      • Option: OPTION
    • Text Area: TEXTAREA
  • Form Submission
    • The form-urlencoded Media Type
    • Query Forms: METHOD=GET
    • Forms with Side-Effects: METHOD=POST
    • Example Form Submission: Questionnaire Form
• HTML Public Text
  • HTML DTD
  • Strict HTML DTD
  • Level 1 HTML DTD
  • Strict Level 1 HTML DTD
  • SGML Declaration for HTML
  • Sample SGML Open Entity Catalog for HTML
  • Character Entity Sets
    • Numeric and Special Graphic Entity Set
    • ISO Latin 1 Character Entity Set
• Security Considerations
• References
• Acknowledgments
  • Authors' Addresses
• The HTML Coded Character Set
• Proposed Entities

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