HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

The Grammar

The grammar is a composite of the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 standard tags and special extensions to the language as supported by the latest versions of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The rules are in alphabetical order. The starting rule for an entire document is named html_document.

a_content [a]	::=	heading
	|	text
a_tag	::=	<a>
		{a_content }0
		</a>
abbr_tag	::=	<abbr> text </abbr>
acronym_tag	::=	<acronym> text </acronym>
address_content	::=	p_tag
	|	text
address_tag	::=	<address>
		{address_content }0
		</address>
applet_content	::=	{<param>}0
		body_content
applet_tag	::=	<applet> applet_content </applet>
b_tag	::=	<b> text </b>
basefont_tag	::=	<basefont> body_content </basefont>
bdo_tag	::=	<bdo> text </bdo>
big_tag	::=	<big> text </big>
blink_tag	::=	<blink> text </blink>
block	::=	{block_content }0
block_content	::=	<isindex>
	|	basefont_tag
	|	blockquote_tag
	|	center_tag
	|	dir_tag
	|	div_tag
	|	dl_tag
	|	form_tag
	|	listing_tag
	|	menu_tag
	|	multicol_tag
	|	nobr_tag
	|	ol_tag
	|	p_tag
	|	pre_tag
	|	table_tag
	|	ul_tag
	|	xmp_tag
blockquote_tag	::=	<blockquote> body_content </blockquote>
body_content	::=	<bgsound>
	|	<hr>
	|	address_tag
	|	block
	|	del_tag
	|	heading
	|	ins_tag ...