Quick Table of Contents

  1. About the HTML 4 Specification
  2. Introduction to HTML 4
  3. On SGML and HTML
  4. Conformance: requirements and recommendations
  5. HTML Document Representation - Character sets, character encodings, and entities
  6. Basic HTML data types - Character data, colors, lengths, URIs, content types, etc.
  7. The global structure of an HTML document - The HEAD and BODY of a document
  8. Language information and text direction - International considerations for text
  9. Text - Paragraphs, Lines, and Phrases
  10. Lists - Unordered, Ordered, and Definition Lists
  11. Tables
  12. Links - Hypertext and Media-Independent Links
  13. Objects, Images, and Applets
  14. Style Sheets - Adding style to HTML documents
  15. Alignment, font styles, and horizontal rules
  16. Frames - Multi-view presentation of documents
  17. Forms - User-input Forms: Text Fields, Buttons, Menus, and more
  18. Scripts - Animated Documents and Smart Forms
  19. SGML reference information for HTML - Formal definition of HTML and validation
  20. SGML Declaration of HTML 4
  21. Document Type Definition
  22. Transitional Document Type Definition
  23. Frameset Document Type Definition
  24. Character entity references in HTML 4
  1. Changes
  2. Performance, Implementation, and Design Notes