This page explains what you can find on this site, and how the information is presented. 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:
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A short description of the element. | ||||||||||
DTD
<!ELEMENT tag - O (%inline;)* -- tag --> <!ATTLIST tag ... >from the HTML 4.0 DTD, "Copyright © World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All Rights Reserved." |
The DTD fragment for the element, from the HTML 4.0 standard | ||||||||||
Attributes
Core attributes:
class
id
style
title
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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. |
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Examples
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One or more examples of the element, with the source code and the interpretation of the browser. | ||||||||||
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This part covers additional HTML subjects, like how to use color, the character set and an introduction to style sheets.
Here you will find answers to questions users asked me, plus information about useful techniques,
Navigation
The default navigational system uses Frames and JavaScript to load the pages.
If you are using a browser which doesn't support this scripting language there
is an alternate navigation method
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make it the default layout.
Icons
On this site I use several icons. This is what they mean :
Indicates that a link points to a page not belonging to this site.
Support for the element/attribute by
Support for the element/attribute by
Support for the element/attribute by
Support for the element/attribute by the
Next to each checked program/specification you will see what the support for it is. This is indicated by these characters :
![]() | The item is supported |
![]() | The item is not supported |
![]() | The item is deprecated |