Abstract
This non-normative reference describes the
HTML markup language and provides details to help
producers of HTML content create documents that conform
to the language.
It is intended to complement the normative conformance
criteria defined in the
HTML5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML
specification,
as well as information in related deliverables published by
the HTML Working Group and from other sources.
By design, this reference does not describe related APIs in detail,
nor attempt to explain how implementations that are
consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents
(those areas are covered by the
HTML5 specification
itself),
nor attempt to also be a tutorial or “how to” authoring guide.
Status of this Document
This section describes the status of this document at the time of
its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list
of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical
report can be found in the W3C technical
reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.
This document is the 11 October 2012 Working Draft of
HTML: The Markup Language (an HTML language reference).
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This document
was published by
the W3C HTML Working Group,
part of the HTML Activity
in the W3C Interaction Domain.
Instability and incompleteness of this document
This document is a working draft — all parts of it remain
subject to significant change or removal, and some parts are
currently incomplete; in particular, many elements currently
lack complete documentation in the following subsections:
- Examples
- The documentation for each element ideally have
at least one conformant example and at least one
non-conformant example.
- Details
- The purpose of this subsection is to provide, where
needed, additional details about the semantics of the
element and its attributes.
- Additional constraints and admonitions
- This purpose of this subsection is to provide, where
needed, additional document-conformance constraints and
usage admonitions for the element and its attributes (in
addition to those already documented in the
Permitted content,
Permitted attributes,
Permitted parent elements,
and
Tag omission
subsections).
Publication as a
Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the
W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced
or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite
this document as other than work in progress.
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