Chapter 1. HTML Pocket Reference
Introduction
This pocket reference provides a concise, yet thorough, listing of HTML tags and attributes specified by the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification, Netscape Navigator, and Internet Explorer.
Using This Book
The majority of this reference is an alphabetical listing of tags and their attributes with explanations and browser support information.
Section 1.2 lists tags that are related in functionality, and Section 1.3 provides examples of how standard web page elements are constructed.
At the end of the book are useful charts, including character entities and decimal to hexadecimal conversions.
For Further Reading
More in-depth explanations of HTML and web design can be found in O’Reilly & Associates’ Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst and HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy. Also useful is Webmaster in a Nutshell by Stephen Spainhour and Robert Eckstein.
The browser support information in this book was provided by the HTML Compendium created by Ron Woodall. I encourage you to check out the Compendium’s site (http://www.htmlcompendium.org) for extremely in-depth explanations of HTML tags, attributes, and values and the browsers that support them.
Conventions Used in This Book
The correct syntax appears to the right of each tag and indicates whether the tag is a container (with an end tag) or stands alone. Browser support information is indicated below each tag. Browsers that do not support the tag have a line ...
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