HTML5 markup

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This document is a Note — 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:

Examples The documentation for each element ideally have at least one conformant example and at least one non-conformant example. Details The purpose of this subsection is to provide, where needed, additional details about the semantics of the element and its attributes. Additional constraints and admonitions This purpose of this subsection is to provide, where needed, additional document-conformance constraints and usage admonitions for the element and its attributes (in addition to those already documented in the Permitted content, Permitted attributes, Permitted parent elements, and Tag omission subsections).

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