HTML 4.01 Specification

W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999

Table of Contents

1. About the HTML 4 Specification
   
2. Introduction to HTML 4
   
3. On SGML and HTML
   
4. Conformance: requirements and recommendations
   
5. HTML Document Representation
   - Character sets, character encodings, and entities
   
6. Basic HTML data types
   - Character data, colors, lengths, URIs, content types, etc.
   
7. The global structure of an HTML document
   - The HEAD and BODY of a document
   
8. Language information and text direction
   - International considerations for text
   
9. Text
   - Paragraphs, Lines, and Phrases
   
10. Lists
    - Unordered, Ordered, and Definition Lists
    
11. Tables
    
12. Links
    - Hypertext and Media-Independent Links
    
13. Objects, Images, and Applets
    
14. Style Sheets
    - Adding style to HTML documents
    
15. Alignment, font styles, and horizontal rules
    
16. Frames
    - Multi-view presentation of documents
    
17. Forms
    - User-input Forms: Text Fields, Buttons, Menus, and more
    
18. Scripts
    - Animated Documents and Smart Forms
    
19. SGML reference information for HTML
    - Formal definition of HTML and validation
    
20. SGML Declaration of HTML 4
    
21. Document Type Definition
    
22. Transitional Document Type Definition
    
23. Frameset Document Type Definition
    
24. Character entity references in HTML 4
    
25. Changes
    
26. Performance, Implementation, and Design Notes
    

• References
  
• Index of Elements
  
• Index of Attributes
  
• Index