COSC 2206: Internet Tools
HTML Review and XHTML

References

This is the site of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that maintains web standards.

The last version of HTML is HTML 4.01 and the complete specification is here.

HTML has been replaces by XHTML. The complete 1.0 specification is here.

This is a comprehensive reference to the HTML 4.01 specification containing the definitions of all tags and attrributes. (Offline version)

winhelp/index.hlp

HTML documentation in WinHelp format

w3schools html tutorial

An interactive tutorial on HTML 4.01.

Web monkey site

Lots of information on HTML and web site design.

Templates

htmlTemplate.html

A template for an HTML document.

xhtmlTemplate.html

A template for an XHTML document.

Web page validation

validator

You can upload a web page here and have it validated using the document type definition. Bothe HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 documents can be validated.

Local HTML Examples

Examples of tables

examples.html (Some simple examples of tables)

Examples of forms

form1.html is a simple example using text fields.
form2.html is a simple example using a menu.
form3.html uses check boxes and radio buttons.

The last example uses a perl script called formPost.pl to echo the form data so it must be run on the server. If you have a local Apache server use localhost/form3.html and make sure the file formPost.pl is in the cgi-bin directory.

Examples of frames

frameSet1.html is a side by side frame example.
frameSet2.html is a side by side frame example using links.
frameSet3.html is an example of nested frames.

example.html is an online book example that uses two frames, one for the table of contents links, and the other for the content.

Online book chapter example using frames

chapter11Frames1.html uses side by side frames and a style sheet.
chapter11Frames2.html uses top and bottom frames and a style sheet.
chapter11Frames3.html uses top and bottom frames and no style sheet.

COSC 2206: Internet Tools HTML Review and XHTML