A rough guide to the documents used to build the HTML specification

Most of the content is generated from things in the sections directory:

acknowledgements.include

The acknowledgements section

attributes.include

The table of HTML attributes in the index

browsers.include

Section 6: Loading Web Pages

changes.include

A history of changes between drafts

dom.include

DOM: document object, generic element semantics, global attributes, ARIA, …

Editor: Travis

editing.include

Section 5: User interaction. The hidden attribute, activation of interactive elements, focus and focus management, accesskey, contenteditable, designmode and editing, drag and drop

element-content-categories.include

The section on element content types in the index

element-interfaces.include

A utility file that builds the table of element interfaces in the index

elements.include

The table of elements in the index

events.include

The table of events in the index

iana.include

IANA registration information

Editor: Arron

infrastructure.include

Section 2: Common Infrastructure. Microsyntaxes, Conformance, datatypes, fetching URLs, …

introduction.include

The introduction

obsolete.include

Obsolete features of the languages

Editor: Arron

rendering.include

Rendering HTML, default styles, presentational hints, quirks mode…

Editor: Arron

semantics.include

4.14 Disable elements and 4.15 Matching HTML elements using selectors

semantics-common-idioms.include

4.13 Common things that don't have elements: subheadings, bread crumbs, conversation, tag clouds…

semantics-document-metadata.include

4.2 Document metadata: head, title, meta, link, style, base.

semantics-edits.include

4.6 Edits: del and ins elements

semantics-embedded-content.include

4.7 Embedded Content: images, video, audio, MathML, SVG…

semantics-forms.include

4.10 Forms

semantics-grouping-content.include

4.4 Block elements: p, pre, figure/figcaption, blockquote, main, div, lists.

semantics-interactive-elements.include

4.11 Interactive elements: details/summary, menu(item), and commands

semantics-links.include

4.8 Links: a, area, and link elements.

semantics-root.include

4.1 The html element

semantics-scriptings.include

4.12 scripting: script, noscript, template, canvas.

semantics-sections.include

4.3 Sections: address, body, aside, nav, article, headers

See also 4.4 for elements you think might be sectioning elements

semantics-tabular-data.include

4.9 Tables

semantics-textlevel.include

4.5 inline elements: a, bdo, em, ruby, var, etc.

syntax.include

Section 8. HTML Syntax: parsing.

Editor: Travis

webappapis.include

Section 7. Web Application APIs: Scripting, Event handlers and firing, Base64 methods, timers, showModalDialog(), the navigator, imageBitMap objects.

xhtml.include

The XML syntax, differences and special rules

Editor: Travis

A couple of utility files are in the includes directory:

cldr.include

CSS defining quote marks for various languages

Editor: Arron

entities.include

About 2200 entities that are defined to represent glyphs

Linking and references are handled by Bikeshed, by using single-page.bs

The following items are inside an ordered list:

1. Apple
2. Orange
3. Mango

My First Heading

My first paragraph.

My First Heading

My first paragraph.

Joey Green

My First Heading

My first paragraph.

Joey Green

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