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HTML5: Edition for Web Authors
W3C Working Draft 29 March 2012
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- Editor:
- Ian Hickson, Google, Inc.
This specification is available in the following formats: single page HTML, multipage HTML, full specification. This is revision 1.5614.
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The bulk of the text of this specification is also available in the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 specification, under a license that permits reuse of the specification text.
Abstract
This document is a strict subset of the full HTML5 specification that omits user-agent (UA) implementation details. It is targeted toward Web authors and others who are not UA implementors and who want a view of the HTML specification that focuses more precisely on details relevant to using the HTML language to create Web documents and Web applications. Because this document does not provide implementation conformance criteria, UA implementors should not rely on it, but should instead refer to the full HTML5 specification.
This document is an automated redaction of the full HTML5 specification. As such, the two documents are supposed to agree on normative matters concerning Web authors. However, if the documents disagree, this is a bug in the redaction process and the unredacted full HTML specification takes precedence. Readers are encouraged to report such discrepancies as bugs in the bug tracking system of the HTML Working Group.
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Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Common infrastructure
- 2.1 Terminology
- 2.2 Conformance requirements
- 2.3 Case-sensitivity and string comparison
- 2.4 Common microsyntaxes
- 2.5 URLs
- 2.6 Common DOM interfaces
- 2.7 Namespaces
- 3 Semantics, structure, and APIs of HTML documents
- 3.1 Documents
- 3.2 Elements
- 3.2.1 Semantics
- 3.2.2 Elements in the DOM
- 3.2.3 Global attributes
- 3.2.3.1 The
id
attribute - 3.2.3.2 The
title
attribute - 3.2.3.3 The
lang
andxml:lang
attributes - 3.2.3.4 The
translate
attribute - 3.2.3.5 The
xml:base
attribute (XML only) - 3.2.3.6 The
dir
attribute - 3.2.3.7 The
class
attribute - 3.2.3.8 The
style
attribute - 3.2.3.9 Embedding custom non-visible data with the
data-*
attributes
- 3.2.3.1 The
- 3.2.4 Element definitions
- 3.2.5 Content models
- 3.2.6 Requirements relating to bidirectional-algorithm formatting characters
- 3.2.7 WAI-ARIA
- 3.3 Dynamic markup insertion
- 4 The elements of HTML
- 4.1 The root element
- 4.2 Document metadata
- 4.3 Scripting
- 4.4 Sections
- 4.5 Grouping content
- 4.6 Text-level semantics
- 4.6.1 The
a
element - 4.6.2 The
em
element - 4.6.3 The
strong
element - 4.6.4 The
small
element - 4.6.5 The
s
element - 4.6.6 The
cite
element - 4.6.7 The
q
element - 4.6.8 The
dfn
element - 4.6.9 The
abbr
element - 4.6.10 The
time
element - 4.6.11 The
code
element - 4.6.12 The
var
element - 4.6.13 The
samp
element - 4.6.14 The
kbd
element - 4.6.15 The
sub
andsup
elements - 4.6.16 The
i
element - 4.6.17 The
b
element - 4.6.18 The
u
element - 4.6.19 The
mark
element - 4.6.20 The
ruby
element - 4.6.21 The
rt
element - 4.6.22 The
rp
element - 4.6.23 The
bdi
element - 4.6.24 The
bdo
element - 4.6.25 The
span
element - 4.6.26 The
br
element - 4.6.27 The
wbr
element - 4.6.28 Usage summary
- 4.6.1 The
- 4.7 Edits
- 4.8 Embedded content
- 4.8.1 The
img
element- 4.8.1.1 Requirements for providing text to act as an alternative for images
- 4.8.1.1.1 General guidelines
- 4.8.1.1.2 A link or button containing nothing but the image
- 4.8.1.1.3 A phrase or paragraph with an alternative graphical representation: charts, diagrams, graphs, maps, illustrations
- 4.8.1.1.4 A short phrase or label with an alternative graphical representation: icons, logos
- 4.8.1.1.5 Text that has been rendered to a graphic for typographical effect
- 4.8.1.1.6 A graphical representation of some of the surrounding text
- 4.8.1.1.7 A purely decorative image that doesn't add any information
- 4.8.1.1.8 A group of images that form a single larger picture with no links
- 4.8.1.1.9 A group of images that form a single larger picture with links
- 4.8.1.1.10 A key part of the content
- 4.8.1.1.11 An image not intended for the user
- 4.8.1.1 Requirements for providing text to act as an alternative for images
- 4.8.2 The
iframe
element - 4.8.3 The
embed
element - 4.8.4 The
object
element - 4.8.5 The
param
element - 4.8.6 The
video
element - 4.8.7 The
audio
element - 4.8.8 The
source
element - 4.8.9 The
track
element - 4.8.10 Media elements
- 4.8.10.1 Error codes
- 4.8.10.2 Location of the media resource
- 4.8.10.3 MIME types
- 4.8.10.4 Network states
- 4.8.10.5 Loading the media resource
- 4.8.10.6 Offsets into the media resource
- 4.8.10.7 Ready states
- 4.8.10.8 Playing the media resource
- 4.8.10.9 Seeking
- 4.8.10.10 Media resources with multiple media tracks
- 4.8.10.11 Synchronising multiple media elements
- 4.8.10.12 Timed text tracks
- 4.8.10.13 User interface
- 4.8.10.14 Time ranges
- 4.8.10.15 Event definitions
- 4.8.10.16 Event summary
- 4.8.10.17 Best practices for authors using media elements
- 4.8.11 The
canvas
element - 4.8.12 The
map
element - 4.8.13 The
area
element - 4.8.14 Image maps
- 4.8.15 MathML
- 4.8.16 SVG
- 4.8.17 Dimension attributes
- 4.8.1 The
- 4.9 Tabular data
- 4.10 Forms
- 4.10.1 Introduction
- 4.10.2 Categories
- 4.10.3 The
form
element - 4.10.4 The
fieldset
element - 4.10.5 The
legend
element - 4.10.6 The
label
element - 4.10.7 The
input
element- 4.10.7.1 States of the
type
attribute- 4.10.7.1.1 Hidden state (
type=hidden
) - 4.10.7.1.2 Text (
type=text
) state and Search state (type=search
) - 4.10.7.1.3 Telephone state (
type=tel
) - 4.10.7.1.4 URL state (
type=url
) - 4.10.7.1.5 E-mail state (
type=email
) - 4.10.7.1.6 Password state (
type=password
) - 4.10.7.1.7 Date and Time state (
type=datetime
) - 4.10.7.1.8 Date state (
type=date
) - 4.10.7.1.9 Month state (
type=month
) - 4.10.7.1.10 Week state (
type=week
) - 4.10.7.1.11 Time state (
type=time
) - 4.10.7.1.12 Local Date and Time state (
type=datetime-local
) - 4.10.7.1.13 Number state (
type=number
) - 4.10.7.1.14 Range state (
type=range
) - 4.10.7.1.15 Color state (
type=color
) - 4.10.7.1.16 Checkbox state (
type=checkbox
) - 4.10.7.1.17 Radio Button state (
type=radio
) - 4.10.7.1.18 File Upload state (
type=file
) - 4.10.7.1.19 Submit Button state (
type=submit
) - 4.10.7.1.20 Image Button state (
type=image
) - 4.10.7.1.21 Reset Button state (
type=reset
) - 4.10.7.1.22 Button state (
type=button
)
- 4.10.7.1.1 Hidden state (
- 4.10.7.2 Common
input
element attributes- 4.10.7.2.1 The
autocomplete
attribute - 4.10.7.2.2 The
dirname
attribute - 4.10.7.2.3 The
list
attribute - 4.10.7.2.4 The
readonly
attribute - 4.10.7.2.5 The
size
attribute - 4.10.7.2.6 The
required
attribute - 4.10.7.2.7 The
multiple
attribute - 4.10.7.2.8 The
maxlength
attribute - 4.10.7.2.9 The
pattern
attribute - 4.10.7.2.10 The
min
andmax
attributes - 4.10.7.2.11 The
step
attribute - 4.10.7.2.12 The
placeholder
attribute
- 4.10.7.2.1 The
- 4.10.7.3 Common
input
element APIs
- 4.10.7.1 States of the
- 4.10.8 The
button
element - 4.10.9 The
select
element - 4.10.10 The
datalist
element - 4.10.11 The
optgroup
element - 4.10.12 The
option
element - 4.10.13 The
textarea
element - 4.10.14 The
keygen
element - 4.10.15 The
output
element - 4.10.16 The
progress
element - 4.10.17 The
meter
element - 4.10.18 Association of controls and forms
- 4.10.19 Attributes common to form controls
- 4.10.20 APIs for the text field selections
- 4.10.21 Constraints
- 4.10.22 Form submission
- 4.11 Interactive elements
- 4.12 Links
- 4.12.1 Introduction
- 4.12.2 Links created by
a
andarea
elements - 4.12.3 Link types
- 4.12.3.1 Link type "
alternate
" - 4.12.3.2 Link type "
author
" - 4.12.3.3 Link type "
bookmark
" - 4.12.3.4 Link type "
help
" - 4.12.3.5 Link type "
icon
" - 4.12.3.6 Link type "
license
" - 4.12.3.7 Link type "
nofollow
" - 4.12.3.8 Link type "
noreferrer
" - 4.12.3.9 Link type "
prefetch
" - 4.12.3.10 Link type "
search
" - 4.12.3.11 Link type "
stylesheet
" - 4.12.3.12 Link type "
tag
" - 4.12.3.13 Sequential link types
- 4.12.3.14 Other link types
- 4.12.3.1 Link type "
- 4.13 Common idioms without dedicated elements
- 5 Loading Web pages
- 6 Web application APIs
- 7 User interaction
- 8 The HTML syntax
- 9 The XHTML syntax
- 10 Obsolete features
- 11 IANA considerations
- Index
- Index of terms
- References
- Acknowledgements