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All the pages can be reached through the selection list at the top of the page, or from the list of pages on the left side if you're using the alternative navigation. The site contains the following information:

HTML elements

The largest part of this site consists of a reference of all HTML elements and their attributes. Here's an example of such a page:

 

<tag>...</tag>

Opening and closing tags required.

<tag>

Opening tag required, closing tag forbidden.

<tag>...[</tag>]

Opening tag required, closing tag optional.

[<tag>...</tag>]

Opening and closing tags optional.

Description

  W3 3.2y
4.0y
NS 3.0y
4.0y
IE 3.0y
4.0y
TV 1.2y
2.1y
Icons indicating the support of the element. See below for a complete explanation.
 
A short description of the element.

DTD

<!ELEMENT tag - O (%inline;)*   -- tag -->
<!ATTLIST tag
  ...
  >
from the HTML 4.0 DTD, "Copyright © W3C, (MIT, INRIA, Keio). All Rights Reserved."
The DTD fragment for the element, from the HTML 4.0 standard

Attributes

Core attributes: class id style title
Internationalization attributes: dir lang
Events: onclick ondblclick onmousedown onmouseup onmouseover onmousemove onmouseout onkeypress onkeydown onkeyup


W3 3.2y
4.0d
NS 3.0y
4.0y
IE 3.0y
4.0y
TV 1.2y
2.1y
ATTRIBUTE

A list of all the attributes defined for the element. With a description and icons indicating the support of the attribute.
The attributes in the groups Core, Internationalization and Events are common attributes. Instead of repeating these descriptions for almost every element, descriptions of these attributes are all on one page.

Examples

Source
<TAG attribute1="somevalue">
An example to show how the
element works.
 
Result
An example to show how the element works.

One or more examples of the element, with the source code and the interpretation of the browser.

Icons

On this site I use several icons. This is what they mean :

 out=> Indicates that a link points to a page not belonging to this site.

 W3 Support for the element/attribute by W3C HTML recommendations out=> Checked versions are 3.2 & 4.0.
 NS Support for the element/attribute by Netscape Navigator out=> Checked versions are 3.0 & 4.0. Note: v4.5 did not extend the HTML support
 IE Support for the element/attribute by Microsoft Explorer out=> Checked versions are 3.0 & 4.0.
 TV Support for the element/attribute by the WebTV browser out=> Included versions are 1.2 and 2.1, but the information is taken from the WebTV documentation. Features haven't been tested with these browsers, I'm sorry, but I don't have the WebTV hardware.

Next to each checked program/specification you will see what the support for it is. This is indicated by these characters :
yThe item is supported
nThe item is not supported
dThe item is deprecated
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