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HTML: The Markup Language
W3C Working Draft 4 March 2010
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- https://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/
- Editor:
- Michael(tm) Smith, W3C <mike@w3.org>
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Abstract
This document describes the HTML markup language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs, nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents, nor attempt to be a tutorial or “how to” authoring guide.
Status of this Document
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This document is the 4 March 2010 First Public Working Draft of
HTML: The Markup Language.
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This document was published by the W3C HTML Working Group, part of the HTML Activity in the W3C Interaction Domain.
This non-normative document is intended to complement the normative conformance criteria defined in the specification HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML [HTML5], and is similar in scope to the HTML5 (Author Edition) subset of that specification [HTML5AUTHOR].
Instability and incompleteness of this document
This document is a working draft — all parts of it remain subject to significant change or removal, and some parts are currently incomplete; in particular, many elements currently lack complete documentation in the following subsections:
- Examples
- The documentation for each element ideally have at least one conformant example and at least one non-conformant example.
- Details
- The purpose of this subsection is to provide, where needed, additional details about the semantics of the element and its attributes.
- Additional constraints and admonitions
- This purpose of this subsection is to provide, where needed, additional document-conformance constraints and usage admonitions for the element and its attributes (in addition to those already documented in the Permitted content, Permitted attributes, Permitted parent elements, and Tag omission subsections).
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Table of Contents
Full Table of Contents #
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Terminology
- 3. Documents
- 4. HTML syntax
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5. HTML elements
- a – hyperlink
- abbr – abbreviation
- address – contact information
- area – image-map hyperlink
- article – article NEW
- aside – tangential content NEW
- audio – audio stream NEW
- b – offset text typically styled in bold CHANGED
- base – base URL
- bdo – BiDi override
- blockquote – block quotation
- body – document body
- br – line break
- button
- button type=submit – submit button
- button type=reset – reset button
- button type=button – button with no additional semantics
- canvas – canvas for dynamic graphics NEW
- caption – table title
- cite – cited title of a work
- code – code fragment
- col – table column
- colgroup – table column group
- command NEW
- command type=command – command with an associated action NEW
- command type=radio – selection of one item from a list of items NEW
- command type=checkbox – state or option that can be toggled NEW
- datalist – predefined options for other controls NEW
- dd – description or value
- del – deleted text
- details – control for additional on-demand information NEW
- dfn – defining instance
- div – generic flow container
- dl – description list
- dt – term or name
- em – emphatic stress CHANGED
- embed – integration point for plugins NEW
- fieldset – set of related form controls
- figcaption – figure caption NEW
- figure – figure with optional caption NEW
- footer – footer NEW
- form – user-submittable form
- h1 – heading
- h2 – heading
- h3 – heading
- h4 – heading
- h5 – heading
- h6 – heading
- head – document metadata
- header – header NEW
- hgroup – heading group NEW
- hr – thematic break CHANGED
- html – root element
- i – offset text typically styled in italic
- iframe – nested browsing context (inline frame)
- img – image
- input
- input type=text – text-input field
- input type=password – password-input field
- input type=checkbox – checkbox
- input type=radio – radio button
- input type=button – button
- input type=submit – submit button
- input type=reset – reset button
- input type=file – file upload control
- input type=hidden – hidden input control
- input type=image – image-coordinates input control
- input type=datetime – global date-and-time input control NEW
- input type=datetime-local – local date-and-time input control NEW
- input type=date – date input control NEW
- input type=month – year-and-month input control NEW
- input type=time – time input control NEW
- input type=week – year-and-week input control NEW
- input type=number – number input control NEW
- input type=range – imprecise number-input control NEW
- input type=email – e-mail address input control NEW
- input type=url – URL input control NEW
- input type=search – search field NEW
- input type=tel – telephone-number-input field NEW
- input type=color – color-well control NEW
- ins – inserted text
- kbd – user input
- keygen – key-pair generator/input control NEW
- label – caption for a form control
- legend – title or explanatory caption
- li – list item
- link – inter-document relationship metadata
- map – image-map definition
- mark – marked (highlighted) text NEW
- menu – list of commands CHANGED
- meta
- meta name – name-value metadata
- meta http-equiv=refresh – “refresh” pragma directive
- meta http-equiv=default-style – “preferred stylesheet” pragma directive
- meta http-equiv=content-language – “default language” pragma directive OBSOLETE
- meta charset – document character-encoding declaration NEW
- meta http-equiv=content-type – document character-encoding declaration
- meter – scalar gauge NEW
- nav – group of navigational links NEW
- noscript – fallback content for script
- object – generic external content
- ol – ordered list
- optgroup – group of options
- option – option
- output – result of a calculation in a form NEW
- p – paragraph
- param – initialization parameters for plugins
- pre – preformatted text
- progress – progress indicator NEW
- q – quoted text
- rp – ruby parenthesis NEW
- rt – ruby text NEW
- ruby – ruby annotation NEW
- samp – (sample) output
- script – embedded script
- section – section NEW
- select – option-selection form control
- small – small print CHANGED
- source – media source NEW
- span – generic span
- strong – strong importance CHANGED
- style – style (presentation) information
- sub – subscript
- summary – summary, caption, or legend for a details control NEW
- sup – superscript
- table – table
- tbody – table row group
- td – table cell
- textarea – text input area
- tfoot – table footer row group
- th – table header cell
- thead – table heading group
- time – date and/or time NEW
- title – document title
- tr – table row
- ul – unordered list
- var – variable or placeholder text
- video – video NEW
- 6. Common content models
- 7. Common attributes
- 8. Forms attributes
- 9. Datatypes