Table of Contents

1. About the HTML 4.0 Specification
2. Introduction to HTML 4.0
   1. Design principles of HTML 4.0
   2. Designing documents with HTML 4.0
   3. A brief SGML tutorial
3. Definitions and Conventions
4. HTML and URLs - Locating resources on the Web
5. HTML Document Character Set -Character sets, character encodings, and entities
6. Basic HTML data types -Character data, colors, and lengths
7. Structure of HTML documents - Detailed Table of Contents
   1. Global structure - The HEAD and BODY of a document
   2. Language information and text direction - International considerations for text
   3. Text - Paragraphs, Lines, and Phrases
   4. Lists - Unordered, Ordered, and Definition Lists
   5. Tables
   6. Links - Hypertext and Media-Independent Links
   7. Inclusions - Objects, Images, and Applets in HTML documents
8. Presentation of HTML documents - Detailed Table of Contents
   1. Style Sheets - Controlling the presentation of an HTML document
   2. Alignment, font styles, and horizontal rules
   3. Frames - Multi-view presentation of documents
9. Interactive HTML documents - Detailed Table of Contents
   1. Forms - User-input Forms: Text Fields, Buttons, Menus, and more
   2. Scripts - Animated Documents and Smart Forms
10. SGML reference information for HTML - Formal definition of HTML and validation
    1. SGML Declaration
    2. Document Type Definition
    3. Named character entities
11. References
12. Indexes
    1. Index of Elements
    2. Index of Attributes
13. Appendixes
    1. Changes between HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0
    2. Performance, Implementation, and Design Notes
    3. HTML and Organizations (W3C, IETF, ISO)