Prologue
Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the HTML 4.01 specification are informational.
- 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
Sections 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 are reference.