Documentation about HTML

Introduction to HTML

The page provides basic information on syntax and semantics of an HTML page (document). This will provide basic information required to develop HTML documents

HTML element reference

Get details about each element supported by different browsers.

HTML attributes list

See all attributes and what elements they are associated with.

HTML5

Learn about the new HTML5 APIs and elements along with their support.

Bad copy-pasting habits

Web technologies are very often learned by viewing sources of other pages and copy-pasting. However, this often means that bad habits perpetuate.

Drawing Graphics with Canvas

A new HTML element for programmable graphics. <canvas> can be used for rendering graphs, UI elements, and other custom graphics on the client.

Tips for Authoring Fast-loading HTML Pages

An optimized web page not only provides for a more responsive site for your visitors, but also reduces the load on your web servers and internet connection.

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Getting help from the community

You need help on a HTML-related problem and can't find the solution in the documentation?

• Consult the dedicated Mozilla forum :
  • as a mailing list
  • as a newsgroup
  • as a Google Group
  • as a Web feed
• Ask your question on the Canvas-Developers Yahoo Group

Don't forget about the netiquette...

Tools easing HTML development

• Firefox' Firebug extension, a popular extension of that navigator that allows to edit live CSS on watched sites. Very practical to test some changes, though this extension does much more.
• HTML Validator
• Web Developer Extension
• HTML Tidy

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Related Topics

• The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) used to give style to HTML.
• The Document Object Model (DOM) is the representation of an HTML document as a tree.
• XHTML is the XML version of the language.