Learning HTML 3.2 by Examples

Contents:

• Preface
  • To whom? Previous knowledge needed?
  • About what? What's HTML 3.2?
  • Why should you learn HTML?
  • But why HTML 3.2?
  • The scope of this document
  • On the versions of this document
  • Best viewed on...
  • Copyright notice
• How to study HTML 3.2
  • Getting started with HTML in general
  • Learning HTML 3.2 systematically
  • The official HTML 3.2 specification
  • Additional sources of information
  • Checking your HTML
• General remarks on the syntax of HTML
  • Character set
  • HTML tags
  • HTML elements
  • Attributes
  • URLs
  • Case sensitivity
  • Division into lines and the use of blanks and tabs
  • Classification of elements
  • Allowed nesting of elements
  • Miscellaneous notes: about escape sequences (character entities), names, colors, widths, pixels, non-breaking spaces, comments
  • Media types
• Fundamental structures in HTML 3.2, with examples
  • The obligatory structure of a document
  • The recommended structure of a document
  • Information about the document - the HEAD section
  • Organizing the contents - headings, paragraphs, lists, etc
  • Text markup - emphasis, citations, code, etc
  • Controlling the layout
  • Links
  • Images, formulas, etc.
  • Tables (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • Style sheets
• Descriptions of HTML 3.2 tags
  • Index and legend
  • A - anchors, hyperlinks, etc
  • ADDRESS - document author information
  • APPLET - Java applets (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • AREA - area in a clickable map (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • B - bolding
  • BASE - base for URLs
  • BASEFONT - base font size (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • BIG - big font (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • BLOCKQUOTE - long quotation
  • BODY - document body
  • BR - line break
  • CAPTION - caption for a table (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • CENTER - centering (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • CITE - citations
  • CODE - program code
  • DD - definition data
  • DFN - defining occurrence (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • DIR - unnumbered list in directory-like form
  • DIV - document division (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • DL - definition list
  • DT - definition term
  • EM - emphasis
  • FONT - font size and color (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • FORM - fill-out form
  • H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 - headings
  • HEAD - document head
  • HR - change in topic (horizontal rule)
  • HTML - the top-level element in HTML
  • I - text in italics
  • IMG - inline images
  • INPUT - input fields in forms
  • ISINDEX - simple keyword searches
  • KBD - keyboard input
  • LI - list item
  • LINK - relationships with other documents
  • MAP - clickable map (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • MENU - unnumbered list in menu-like form
  • META - meta info
  • OL - ordered (numbered) list
  • OPTION - an option in a select menu
  • P - normal paragraph
  • PARAM - applet parameters (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • PRE - preformatted text
  • SAMP - sample output
  • SCRIPT - client-side scripting languages (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • SELECT - menu in a form
  • SMALL - small font (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • STRIKE - strike-through text (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • STRONG - strong emphasis
  • STYLE - style sheets (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • SUB - subscript (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • SUP - superscript (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • TABLE - tables (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • TD - table data (cell) (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • TEXTAREA - multi-line text input in a form
  • TH - table heading (cell) (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • TITLE - "external" title
  • TR - table row (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • TT - teletype (monospaced) text
  • U - underline (Not in HTML 2.0!)
  • UL - unnumbered list
  • VAR - variables

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