Contents

Contents

• 1 History
  • 1.1 Origins
  • 1.2 First specifications
  • 1.3 Version history of the standard
    • 1.3.1 HTML version timeline
    • 1.3.2 HTML draft version timeline
    • 1.3.3 XHTML versions
• 2 Markup
  • 2.1 Elements
    • 2.1.1 Element examples
    • 2.1.2 Attributes
  • 2.2 Character and entity references
  • 2.3 Data types
  • 2.4 Document type declaration
• 3 Semantic HTML
• 4 Delivery
  • 4.1 HTTP
  • 4.2 HTML e-mail
  • 4.3 Naming conventions
  • 4.4 HTML Application
• 5 Current variations
  • 5.1 SGML-based versus XML-based HTML
  • 5.2 Transitional versus strict
  • 5.3 Frameset versus transitional
  • 5.4 Summary of specification versions
• 6 Hypertext features not in HTML
• 7 WYSIWYG editors
• 8 See also
• 9 References
• 10 External links