HyperText Mark-up Language
The WWW system uses marked-up text
to represent a hypertext document
for transmision over the network.
The hypertext mark-up language is
an SGML format. WWW parsers should
ignore tags which they do not understand,
and ignore attributes which they
do not understand of tags which they
do understand.
To find out how to write HTML, or
to write a program to generate it,
read the following sections:-
- Default text
- How text is interpreted
when uninfluenced by tags
- The tags
- A list of the tags used
in HTML with their significance.
- Entities
- Special characters are represented
by SGML entities
- DTD
- The SGML document type definition
for HTML.
The following do not form part of
the specifciation.
- Example
- A file containing a variety
of tags used for test purposes.
See also finding
examples on the web .
- Future directions
- Changes suggested
for HTML improvements
- Constraints
- Design constraints for
HTML which might explain some of
its properties.
See also
- New spec
- As edited by Dan Connolly,
convex. Comments to www-talk@info.cern.ch
please.
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