This is a complete list of the tags, attributes, styles, and OEB markup supported by the Pocket PC version 1.0 of Microsoft Reader and the Windows version 1.5 of Microsoft Reader.
Items marked "Yes" are fully supported. Items marked "No" are not supported. Items marked Ignored can be coded into eBooks and will be ignored by conversion tools, but may be active in future Reader releases. Items marked "Dep" are deprecated by the OEB specification and should be avoided whenever possible.
OEB, Pocket PC Reader 1.0, and Reader 1.5 Support
Tags | OEB v1.0 | PPC 1.0 | Reader 1.5 | Notes |
XML | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
!-- -- | Yes | Yes | Comments | |
!DOCTYPE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Properly formatted DOCTYPE only. |
A | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Href - external | Yes | Yes | Yes | Displayed as text. Do not render. |
Href - internal | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Name | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Rel | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Rev | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
<AREA /> | Yes | No | No | |
Alt | Yes | No | No | |
Coords | Yes | No | No | |
Href | Yes | No | No | |
Nohref | Yes | No | No | |
Shape | Yes | No | No | |
B | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
BASE | Yes | No | Yes | |
Href | Yes | No | Yes | |
BIG | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
BLOCKQUOTE | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Cite | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
BODY | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Bgcolor | Dep. | No | No | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Text | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
BR | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Clear | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
CAPTION | Yes | No | No | |
CENTER | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
CITE | Yes | No | Yes | |
CODE | Yes | No | Yes | |
DD | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | ||
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
DFN | Yes | No | Yes | |
DEL | No | Yes | Yes | Line through the text. |
DIR | No | Yes | Yes | Text in a list style. |
DIV | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Align | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
DL | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
DT | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
EM | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
FONT | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Color | Dep. | Yes | Yes | MS: numeric, plus sixteen standard color names |
Face | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Size | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
HEAD | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Hn | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Align | Dep. | Yes | Yes | OEB: left, center, right, justify |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
HR | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Align | Dep. | Yes | Yes | OEB: left, center, right |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Noshade | No | Yes | Yes | |
Size | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Width | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
HTML | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
xmlns | No | Yes | ||
I | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
IMG | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Align | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Alt | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Border | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Height | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Hspace | Dep. | No | No | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Longdesc | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Lowsrc | Yes | No | No | |
Src | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Usemap | Dep. | No | No | |
Vspace | Dep. | No | No | |
Width | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
INS | No | Yes | Yes | Reader underlines the text. |
KBD | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
LI | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Type | No | No | Yes | |
LINK | Yes | Yes | Yes | Style sheets only |
Href | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Media | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Rel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Must equal "stylesheet" or ignored |
Rev | Yes | No | No | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Type | Yes | No | Yes | |
LISTING | No | No | Yes | |
Class | No | No | Yes | |
Id | No | No | Yes | |
Lang | No | No | Yes | |
Style | No | No | Yes | |
Title | No | No | Ignored | |
MAP | Yes | No | No | |
Name | Dep. | No | No | |
MENU | Yes | No | Yes | |
Id | No | No | Yes | |
META | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Name | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Content | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Scheme | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
OBJECT | Yes | No | No | |
Align | Dep. | No | No | |
Archive | Yes | No | No | |
Border | Dep. | No | No | |
Classid | Yes | No | No | |
Codebase | Yes | No | No | |
Codetype | Yes | No | No | |
Data | Yes | No | No | |
Height | Dep. | No | No | |
Hspace | Dep. | No | No | |
Type | Yes | No | No | |
Usemap | Yes | No | No | |
Vspace | Dep. | No | No | |
Width | Dep. | No | No | |
OL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Nesting supported, numbered only |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Start | No | No | No | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Type | Dep. | No | Yes | |
P | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Align | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
PARAM | Yes | No | No | |
Name | Yes | No | No | |
Value | Yes | No | No | |
Valuetype | Yes | No | No | OEB: data, ref, object |
Type | Yes | No | No | |
PLAINTEXT | MSR, Dep. | No | Yes | |
PRE | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
Q | Yes | No | Yes | |
Cite | Yes | No | Yes | |
S | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
SAMP | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | Yes | Yes | ||
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
SCRIPT | No | No | No | Text within should be ignored |
SMALL | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
SPAN | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
STRIKE | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
STRONG | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
STYLE | Yes | Yes | Yes | See style property list below. |
Type | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
SUB | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
SUP | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
TABLE | Yes | No | Yes | |
Align | Dep. | No | Ignored | |
Bgcolor | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Border | Yes | No | Yes | |
Cellpadding | Yes | No | Yes | |
Cellspacing | Yes | No | Ignored | |
Summary | Yes | No | No | |
Width | Dep. | No | No | |
TD | Yes | No | Yes | |
Abbr | Yes | No | No | |
Align | Yes | No | Yes | |
Bgcolor | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Colspan | Yes | No | Yes | Slightly different from HTML |
Height | Dep. | No | Yes | Not % |
Nowrap | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Rowspan | Yes | No | Yes | |
Valign | Yes | No | Yes | |
Width | Yes | No | No | |
TH | Yes | No | Yes | |
Abbr | Yes | No | No | |
Align | Yes | No | Yes | |
Bgcolor | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Colspan | Yes | No | Yes | Slightly different from HTML |
Height | Dep. | No | Yes | Not % |
Nowrap | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Rowspan | Yes | No | Yes | |
Valign | Yes | No | Yes | |
Width | Dep. | No | No | |
TR | Yes | No | Yes | |
Align | No | No | No | |
Bgcolor | Dep. | No | Yes | |
Valign | Yes | No | Yes | |
TITLE | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
TT | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
U | Dep. | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
UL | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Class | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Id | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Lang | No | Yes | Yes | |
Style | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Title | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | |
VAR | Yes | No | Yes | |
Style Properties | OEB v1.0 | PPC 1.0 | Reader 1.5 | Notes |
Background-color | Yes | No | Yes | Applies only to table, tr, td |
Basic color names | Yes | No | Yes | |
6- and 3-digit hex | Yes | No | Yes | |
RGB, int and percentage | Yes | No | Yes | |
Border | Yes | No | Yes | |
None | Yes | No | Yes | |
Solid | Yes | No | Yes | |
Dotted | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Dashed | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Double | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Groove | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Ridge | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Inset | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Outset | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Thin | Yes | No | Yes | |
Medium | Yes | No | Yes | |
Thick | Yes | No | Yes | |
Border-color | No | No | Yes | Subset of OEB border property |
Border-style | No | No | Yes | Subset of OEB border property |
None | Yes | No | Yes | |
Solid | Yes | No | Yes | |
Dotted | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Dashed | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Double | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Groove | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Ridge | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Inset | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Outset | Yes | No | Yes | Renders as solid |
Border-width | No | No | Yes | Subset of OEB border property |
Thin | No | No | Yes | |
Medium | No | No | Yes | |
Thick | No | No | Yes | |
Color | Yes | No | Yes | |
Basic color names | Yes | No | Yes | |
6- and 3-digit hex | Yes | No | Yes | |
RGB, int and percentage | Yes | No | Yes | |
Clear | Yes | No | Yes | |
None | Yes | No | Yes | |
Left | Yes | No | No | Equivalent to "both" |
Right | Yes | No | No | Equivalent to "both" |
Both | Yes | No | Yes | |
Display | Yes | Yes | Yes | all elements |
in-line | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
block | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
oeb-page-head | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | Same as none. |
oeb-page-foot | Yes | Ignored | Ignored | Same as none. |
Float | Yes | No | Yes | |
Left | Yes | No | Yes | |
Right | Yes | No | Yes | |
None | Yes | No | Yes | |
Font | No | No | Yes | |
Font-family | Yes | No | Yes | |
Serif | Yes | No | Yes | |
Sans-Serif | Yes | No | Yes | |
Monospace | Yes | No | Yes | |
Font-size | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9 supported names, all elements |
name | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Font-style | Yes | Yes | Yes | all elements |
normal | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
italic | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Font-weight | Yes | Yes | Yes | all elements |
normal | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
bold | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Height | Yes | No | Yes | MS: image and HR |
Line-height | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
normal | Yes | Yes | Yes | length or percentage, on block elements only |
numeric values | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
List-style-type | Yes | No | Yes | |
Decimal | Yes | No | Yes | |
Lower-Roman | Yes | No | Yes | |
Upper-Roman | Yes | No | Yes | |
Lower-Alpha | Yes | No | Yes | |
Upper-Alpha | Yes | No | Yes | |
None | Yes | No | Yes | Supported for UL |
Margin-right | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Margin-left | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Margin-top | Yes | Yes | Yes | Negative numbers treated as zero |
Margin-bottom | Yes | Yes | Yes | Negative numbers treated as zero |
OEB-column-number | Yes | No | No | |
Auto | Yes | No | No | |
Positive Integer | Yes | No | No | |
Page-break-after | Yes | Yes | Yes | block level |
left | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
right | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
always | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
auto | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Page-break-before | Yes | Yes | Yes | block level |
left | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
right | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
always | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
auto | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Page-break-inside | Yes | No | No | |
Auto | Yes | No | No | |
Avoid | Yes | No | No | |
Text-align | Yes | Yes | Yes | block level |
left | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
right | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
centered | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
justify | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Text-decoration | Yes | No | Yes | |
None | Yes | No | Yes | |
Underline | Yes | No | Yes | |
Text-indent | Yes | Yes | Yes | A length or percentage, block level |
margin-left | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
margin-right | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Vertical-align | Yes | No | Yes | |
Top | Yes | No | Yes | |
Middle | Yes | No | Yes | |
Bottom | Yes | No | Yes | |
Width | Yes | No | Yes | MS: image and HR |
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