Nesting rules for HTML 4.01 Transitional

Nesting rules for HTML 4.01 Transitional

HTML

• HEAD
  • TITLE (required)
  • SCRIPT, STYLE
    • CDATA
  • ISINDEX, BASE, META, LINK (empty)
  • OBJECT (see content model below)
• BODY
  • INS, DEL (special rules apply)
    • flow
  • flow
    • block
      • P, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6
        • inline
      • UL, OL
        • LI
          • flow
      • DIR, MENU
        • LI
          • inline exluding block
      • DL
        • DT
          • inline
        • DD
          • flow
      • PRE
        • inline excluding IMG, OBJECT, APPLET, BIG, SMALL, SUB, SUP, FONT, BASEFONT
      • DIV, CENTER, BLOCKQUOTE, IFRAME
        • flow
      • NOSCRIPT
        • flow
      • NOFRAMES
        • flow
      • FORM
        • flow excluding an enclosed FORM
      • ISINDEX, HR (empty)
      • TABLE
        • CAPTION
          • inline
        • COLGROUP
          • COL (empty)
        • COL (empty)
        • THEAD, TBODY, TBODY
          • TR
            • TH, TD
              • flow
      • ADDRESS
        • inline
        • P
          • inline
      • FIELDSET
        • #PCDATA
        • flow
        • LEGEND
          • inline
    • inline
      • #PCDATA
      • TT, I, B, U, S, STRIKE, BIG, SMALL, FONT, EM, STRONG, DFN, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR, CITE, ABBR, ACRONYM, SUB, SUP, Q, SPAN, BDO
        • inline
      • A
        • inline excluding an enclosed A element
      • OBJECT , APPLET
        • PARAM (empty)
        • flow
      • IMG, BASEFONT, BR (empty)
      • SCRIPT
        • CDATA
      • MAP
        • AREA (empty)
        • block
      • INPUT (empty)
      • SELECT
        • OPTGROUP
          • OPTION
        • OPTION
      • TEXTAREA
      • LABEL
        • LABEL excluding enclosed LABEL
      • BUTTON
        • flow excluding A, INPUT, SELECT, TEXTAREA, LABEL, BUTTON, FORM, ISINDEX, FIELDSET, IFRAME