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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