HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

HTML is a markup language for hypertext which is used in WWW clients. This is an overview of all HTML related materials here at W3C and around the web.

W3C Position Statement on HTML

What HTML tags should I use? Which ones can I count on? Which ones are standard? What about HTML 3.0? Tables? Fig? Math? Frames? See the HTML activity statement for the W3C position on these issues.

News (more...)

• 10 July 96: experimental draft of HTML DTD including style sheets, scripting, the object tag, internationalization and some extensions to forms.
• 7 May 96: Introducing HTML 3.2 (Press Release)
• 25 April 96: W3C Workshop on High Quality Printing from the Web

Learning and Using HTML

• Information Provider Materials including A style guide for online hypertext, the HTTP protocol, the server guide , clickable images, etc.
• Web Tools including HTML editors, filters, and converters
• HTML Reference Manual by Michael J. Hannah, Sandia National Laboratories <mjhanna@sandia.gov>
• Frequently Asked Questions about web authoring, by Thomas Boutell
• Web Developer's section of the WWW Virtual Library, maintained by Alan Richmond.
• HTML info in the Yahoo collection
• HyperNews page on HTML maintained by Daniel LaLiberte at NCSA.

HTML Groups, Discussion Forums, and Archives

If you have a question, comment, or proposal about HTML, there are several kinds of discussion forums to choose from. Be sure to check the archives and FAQs first.

Specs and Drafts

Published specs: W3C working drafts, IETF drafts and RFCs, etc. A few works in progress

Testing and Certification

The HTML 2.0 Standard defines conformance of HTML documents (web pages) and certain aspects of HTML user agents (web browsers). In order to promote reliability and fidelity of communications on the web, W3C is coordinating testing efforts.

Related Resources

If what you're looking for isn't here, it may be elsewhere here at W3C:

SGML

The architecture behind HTML. Introductory materials, W3C Activity.

Style Sheets

Cascading Stylesheets and related proposals for adding more presentational control for HTML.

Internationalization

Support for western european writing systems is widespread. Support for eastern european, CJK, and other writing systems, as well as mixed-languge documents, is in the works. Issues include character sets, encodings, bi-directional rendering, fonts, currency and date formats, ...

Access for the Disabled

One major feature of HTML is that it can be rendered in braille, by speech synthesys system, etc.

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