Dec 24, 1999 · Quick Table of Contents. About the HTML 4 Specification; Introduction to HTML 4; On SGML and HTML; Conformance: requirements and recommendations; HTML Document Representation - Character sets, character encodings, and entities; Basic HTML data types - Character data, colors, lengths, URIs, content types, etc.; The global structure of an HTML document - The HEAD and BODY of a document

2.3.4 Compound documents. HTML now offers a standard mechanism for embedding generic media objects and applications in HTML documents. The OBJECT element (together with its more specific ancestor elements IMG and APPLET) provides a mechanism for including images, video, sound, mathematics, specialized applications, and other objects in a document.

This is HTML 4.01 Strict DTD, which excludes the presentation attributes and elements that W3C expects to phase out as support for style sheets matures.

REC-html40-19980424. HTML 4.0 Specification. W3C Recommendation, revised on 24-Apr-1998. This version: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424 Latest version:

As a broad change from HTML4, HTML no longer has any element that only accepts what HTML4 called "block-level" elements; e.g. the body element now allows flow content. Thus, This is closer to HTML4 Transitional than HTML4 Strict. Further changes include:

1.1 How the specification is organized. This specification is divided into the following sections: Sections 2 and 3: Introduction to HTML 4 The introduction describes HTML's place in the scheme of the World Wide Web, provides a brief history of the development of HTML, highlights what can be done with HTML 4, and provides some HTML authoring tips.

Aug 24, 1999 · This document is a revised version of the 4.0 Recommendation first released on 18 December 1997 and then revised 24 April 1998 Changes since the 24 April

7.2 HTML version information. A valid HTML document declares what version of HTML is used in the document. The document type declaration names the document type definition (DTD) in use for the document (see ).. HTML 4.01 specifies three DTDs, so authors must include one of the following document type declarations in their documents.

May 24, 2005 · Advanced HTML | Adding a touch of style. Getting started with HTML. Dave Raggett, revised 24 May 2005.. This is a short introduction to writing HTML. What is HTML? It is a special kind of text document that is used by Web browsers to present text and graphics.

Here, the comment "named property value" explains the use of the PARAM element type. Comments in the DTD are informative only. 3.3.2 Parameter entity definitions. The HTML DTD begins with a series of parameter entity definitions. A parameter entity definition defines a kind of macro that may be referenced and expanded elsewhere in the DTD.