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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:

 
<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 © 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
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.

Other HTML subjects

This part covers additional HTML subjects, like how to use color, the character set and an introduction to style sheets.

Tips, Tricks and Techniques

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 for you available. If you prefer this layout, just bookmark this file and to make it the default layout.

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.
 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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