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HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the coding used to create the structure and sometimes the layout of web pages.

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HTML tutorials

Site/Page Name Description Details
The global structure of an HTML document HTML document structure with details about each section of the document HTML version information, the document head, the document body
HTML Code Tutorial Tutorials organized by topic From anchors to tables, and an HTML Quick List
htmldog.com HTML Guides Step-by-step HTML Beginner, HTML Intermediate, and HTML Advanced guides Tags, headings, lists, span and div, meta tags, tables, accessible forms, document type declarations, and more
HTML Examples How to use tags and format text, organized by topic Basic tags, formatting text, links, frames, tables, lists, forms and input, images, backgrounds, styles, the head section, the meta tag, scripts

HTML tags

Site/Page Name Description Details
HTML 4.01 Reference HTML tags, their descriptions, and the earliest version of Internet Explorer and Netscape that supports them From <abbr> and <blockquote> to <ul> and <xmp> with links to explanations of each tag; deprecated tags indicated as deprecated
A Beginner's Guide to HTML "A guide to what not to use" "...some of the most common tags you might come across that have better alternatives" such as <b>, <font>, and <target>.
Bad Tags Explanations suitable for those starting to learn HTML, and for reference Explains basic tags, how to order them, and how to format links and images

HTML characters

Site/Page Name Description Details
HTML Character Entities A list of characters with special meaning in HTML and how to display them Has the most common character entities and a full list of HTML character entities
Character Entity References in HTML 4 w3.org's guide to character entity references Introduction to character entity references and lists of characters for ISO 8859-1, symbols, mathematical symbols, Greek letters, and markup — significant and internationalization characters
"Special" Windows characters and their ISO 10646 equivalents A table with "...the Windows characters which are not ISO Latin 1 characters" Numeric character references for quotation marks, dashes, tilde accents, and more, and a list of problems with some methods of presenting some characters

Document types

Site/Page Name Description Details
Choosing a DOCTYPE A list and explanations of common doctypes HTML 4.01 Strict, HTML 4.01 Transitional, HTML 4.01 Frameset, XML versions of these doctypes, HTML 3.2, HTML 2.0
The <!DOCTYPE> tag A list and explanations of common doctypes HTML Strict DTD, HTML Transitional DTD, Frameset DTD, XHTML versions of these doctypes
Rendering Mode and Doctype Switching A two-page article with everything about doctypes An explanation of a doctype, "standards" mode versus "quirks" mode, a list of doctypes, things to keep in mind