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Idiosyncrasies of the HTML parser
Idiosyncrasies of the HTML parser
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Idiosyncrasies of the HTML parser

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Last updated on 2019-08-28

About the Book

The HTML parser is a piece of software that processes HTML markup and produces an in-memory tree representation (known as the DOM).

The HTML parser has many strange behaviors. For more than a decade, the HTML standards stated that HTML was an application of SGML, while web browsers used a very different approach to parsing HTML. Then, the WHATWG specified that the HTML parser was much closer to what contemporary web browsers did. Today, all browsers have conforming HTML parsers. This book will highlight the ins and outs of the HTML parser, and contains almost-impossible quizzes.

HTML is not only used by basically all of the web, but it is also part of many modern applications. The HTML parser is part of the foundation of the web platform. HTML parsers can be found in web browsers, but are also implemented in various languages and platforms.

About the Author

Simon Pieters
Simon Pieters

Simon works on web standards and testing the web platform to foster interoperability between web browsers. He is one of the editors of the WHATWG HTML Living Standard, and has helped the research and design of the HTML parser specification.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
    • Intended audience
    • Definition
    • Scope
    • Practical application
    • About the author
    • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
    • The DOM, parsing, and serialization
    • History of HTML parsers
    • The HTML parser is specified
    • The HTML syntax
  • Chapter 2. The HTML parser
    • Overview of the HTML parser
    • Error handling
    • Detecting character encoding
    • Preprocessing the input stream
    • Tokenizer
    • Tree construction
    • Scripting
    • Speculative parsing
    • Tags that are no longer supported
  • Chapter 3. Microsyntaxes
    • Numbers
    • Image map coordinates
    • Responsive images
    • Colors
    • Meta refresh
  • Chapter 4. DOM manipulation
    • Using DOM APIs
    • Using the template element
    • Sanitizing HTML
    • Appeasing the XML gods
  • Chapter 5. Serializing
  • Appendix A. Implementations
  • Appendix B. Conformance checkers
    • DTD-based validators
    • Validator.nu

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