- Section 2.1.1
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-html4/cover.html" is said to designate the
current HTML specification. The current HTML specification is actually at
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40".
- Section 7.5.2
- The hypertext link on "name" is incorrect. It should link to types.html#type-name.
- Section 7.5.4
- There is no "href" attribute for the
DIV and
SPAN elements.
- Section 7.5.6
- The P element should be removed from the example. It is
invalid in ADDRESS.
- Section 8.1
- The example: <P><Q lang="en">"Her super-powers ...
should not have a double quote mark before the word "Her".
- Section 9.3.4
- The attribute width should be noted as deprecated.
- Section 11.2.4
- In the section "Calculating the width of columns", the sentence
"We have set the value of the align attribute in the second column
group to 'center'." should read "third" instead of "second".
- Section 11.2.6
- In the portion entitled "Cells that span several rows or
columns", paragraph 2 reads "In this table definition, we specify that the
cell in row four, column two should span a total of three columns,
including the current row." It should end "...including the
current column."
- Section 13.2
- The sentence beginning "User agents must render alternate next
when they cannot support ..." should read "text", not "next".
- Section 13.6.2
- The ismap attribute is not defined for the
INPUT element and thus the last sentence of the
second paragraph only applies to the IMG element.
- Section 14.2.3
- The title attribute for the STYLE element should be listed as an attribute defined
elsewhere.
- Section 14.3.2
- The second example sets title="Compact", but should set
title="compact".
- Section 15.1.2
- The sentence ending "the align element." should read
"the align attribute."
- Section 15.1.3.2
- The following style rule is incorrect:
<STYLE type="text/css">
BR.mybr { clear: left }
</STYLE>
since it refers to the class "mybr" and not the id value. The
correct syntax is:
<STYLE type="text/css">
BR#mybr { clear: left }
</STYLE>
- Section 16
- All the examples containing a Document Type Declaration use
something like "THE_LATEST_VERSION_/frameset.dtd" or
"THE_LATEST_VERSION_" as the system identifier for the Frameset
DTD. They should use "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/frameset.dtd" instead.
- Section 16.3 and Section 16.3.1
- The second example of 16.3 and the example of 16.3.1 use the
wrong DTD; they should use the Transitional DTD.
- Section 17.5
- In "attributes defined elsewhere" for the
BUTTON element,
missing are "id/class", "lang/dir", "title", "style", and
"tabindex". Also, remove "usemap".
- Section 17.6/17.6.1
- In "attributes defined elsewhere" for
OPTION and
OPTGROUP,
"onfocus", "onblur", and "onchange" should not be there.
The "attributes defined elsewhere" section is missing for the
SELECT element (please
see the DTD for the full list of attributes).
- Section 17.9.1
- The "tabindex" attribute is not defined for the
LABEL element.
- Section 17.12.2
- The sentence "The following elements support the readonly
attribute: INPUT, TEXT, PASSWORD, and TEXTAREA." should read "The following elements support
the readonly attribute: INPUT and TEXTAREA."
- Section 18.2.2
- The first paragraph of the section entitled "Local
declaration of a scripting language" reads:
It is also possible to specify the scripting language in each
SCRIPT element via the type attribute. In the absence of a default scripting
language specification, this attribute must be set on each SCRIPT element.
Since the type attribute is required for the
SCRIPT element, this paragraph should read:
The type attribute must be specified for each
SCRIPT element instance in a document. The value
of the type attribute for a SCRIPT element overrides the default scripting
language for that element.
- Section 24.2.1 and file HTMLlat1.ent
- The comment "= discretionary hyphen" for the character reference "not"
should not be there.
The FPI in comment reads "-//W3C//ENTITIES Full Latin 1//EN//HTML",
instead this should be "-//W3C//ENTITIES Latin1//EN//HTML".
- Section 24.3.1 and file HTMLsymbol.ent
- The FPI in comment reads "-//W3C//ENTITIES Symbolic//EN//HTML",
instead this should be "-//W3C//ENTITIES Symbols//EN//HTML".
- Section A.1.2
- The S element which is deprecated is listed
here are as part of the changes between HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0. This element
was not actually defined in HTML 3.2.
- Section A.3
- The longdesc attribute is
not specified for tables. Instead, the summary
attribute allows authors to give longer descriptions of tables.
- Section B.4
- The sentence "You may help search engines by using the LINK element with rel="begin" along with a TITLE, ..." should read "You may help search engines
by using the LINK element with rel="start" along
with the "title" attribute, ..."
- Section B.5.1
- The sentence "This can be altered by setting the width-TABLE attribute
of the TABLE element." should refer to the
"width" attribute of the TABLE element.
- Section B.5.2
- The sentence "Rules for handling objects too large for column
apply when the explicit or implied alignment results in a situation
where the data exceeds the assigned width of the column." should read
"too large for a column". The meaning of the sentence is unclear since it
refers to "rules" governing an error condition; user agent behavior in
error conditions lies outside the scope of the specification.
- Index of attributes
- The "href" attribute for the BASE
element should not be marked as deprecated. The
DTD and prose correctly indicated that it is not deprecated.
The "target" attribute should not be marked as
deprecated.
Though not deprecated, it is not defined in the Strict DTD
either.
The "language" attribute for the SCRIPT
element should be marked as
deprecated
and should not be in the Strict DTD.
