HTML 4.0 Reference

HTML 4.0 became a W3C Recommendation in December of 1997. The new HTML standard provides a number of significant improvements over previous versions of the language while emphasizing the concepts of accessibility and structural markup.


What's New in HTML 4.0: A summary of the new features in HTML 4.0 and a look at the key concepts behind the new standard.

Structure of an HTML 4.0 Document: An explanation of elements, tags, and attributes, and how they are used in an HTML 4.0 document.

Organizational List of HTML 4.0 Elements: All HTML 4.0 elements organized by their function.

Alphabetical List of HTML 4.0 Elements: All HTML 4.0 elements listed alphabetically.

HTML 4.0 Entities: All character entity references in HTML 4.0 along with their numeric character references and rendering in your browser.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): What are Style Sheets, Why should you use them. The complete guide that tells you everything you need to know about Style Sheets!

Server Side Includes (SSI): The What, How and Why uses of Server Side Includes. The complete guide!

FAQ: The most Frequently Asked Questions web builders come up with when building websites! - You have questions, we have the answers!

The Other FAQ: More Frequently Asked Questions about web authoring answered here!

Using relative URLs: A short guide on how these work and how to construct and resolve them.

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