HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 1. HTML5 Pocket Reference
HTML (
HyperText Markup Language
) is the markup language used to turn text documents
into web pages and applications. The fundamental purpose of HTML as a markup language
is to provide a
semantic
description (the meaning) of the content and establish a document
structure
(a hierarchy of elements).
This pocket reference provides a concise yet thorough listing of the elements and attributes
specified in the HTML5 Candidate Recommendation maintained by the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) dated December 17, 2012, the HTML 5.1 Editor's Draft dated June 15,
2013, and the “living” HTML specification maintained by the Web Hypertext Application
Technology Working Group (WHATWG) as of June 15, 2013.
Elements and attributes from the HTML 4.01 Specification that were made obsolete in
HTML5 have been omitted from this edition. The elements and attributes contained in this
topic may be used in HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, or XHTML 1.1 documents, unless they are
explicitly marked “Not in HTML 4.01,” in which case they will cause the document to be in-
valid.
HTML5 documents can be written in XHTML syntax (formally known as the “XML Serializ-
ation of HTML5”), so whenever applicable, special considerations for XHTML will be noted.
See
Appendix B
at the end of this reference for details on XHTML syntax requirements.
This topic is organized into the following sections:
