The content of this document is also available as a single HTML file with some additional cross-reference features.
This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents.
This document is the 9 September 2009 Editor’s Draft of HTML 5: The Markup Language.
This document does not represent consensus in the HTML Working Group. In particular, some members of the group do not support normative status for it, and thus do not support its advance on the W3C Recommendation track. Discussions about the normative status of this document are ongoing, and no decision has been reached yet. As with other documents produced by the HTML Working Group, this document uses the design approach described in HTML Design Principles.
This document is a working draft — all parts of it remain subject to significant change or removal, and some parts are currently incomplete; in particular, many elements currently lack complete documentation in the following subsections:
The existence of this document as an Editor’s Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.