Chapter 11

Hyper Text Markup Language, and Extensions

• The official HTML 3.0 tags
• Viola extensions

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This book will decribe the specifics of viola's implementation of HTML. For general guides to writing HTML, refer to [....].

The Markup Tag Set

What follow is a catalog of what's implemented in ViolaWWW. Refer to HTML 3.0 RFC for the official standard and more details of the tag usage. Differences from the official 3.0 is pointed out in the documentation for the individual tags.

• Paragraph etc: P, L, BR
• Anchor: A
• Font styles: B, BOLD, STRONG, EM, EMPH, I, ITALIC, TT, DFN, CITE, CODE, KEY, KBD, CMD, VAR, SAMP
• Headers: H1..H7
• Listings: XMP, EXAMPLE, PRE TEXTAREA, PLAIN, PLAINTEXT, SCREEN, LIT, LISTING, BLOCKQUOTE, QUOTE, DIR, MENU
• Lists: OL, OLC, UL, ULC, LI, DL, DT, DD
• Document title: TITLE
• Author signature: ADDRESS
• Index field: ISINDEX
• Document head and body: HEAD, BODY
• Document wrapper: HTML
• Containers: SECTION
• Document insert: INSERT
• Graphics: IMG, IMAGE, FIG, FIGURE, FIGDATA, FIGA FIGCAP
• Table Tags: TABLE, TCAP, TH, TD, TR, TB
• Rules: HR, VR
• Input Forms: FORM, INPUT, SELECT, OPTION, MH
• Footnote (exp): FOOTNOTE
• Caution header (exp): CAUTION
• Meta information links: LINK
• Columns Formatter: HPANE, COL2, COL3, COL4
• Math: MATH, SUB, SUP, BOX, OVER

Also see The entities table, and a small collection of demo documents.