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
- LI
- DIR, MENU
- LI
- inline exluding block
- LI
- DL
- DT
- inline
- DD
- flow
- DT
- 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
- TH, TD
- TR
- CAPTION
- ADDRESS
- inline
- P
- inline
- FIELDSET
- #PCDATA
- flow
- LEGEND
- inline
- P, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6
- 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
- OPTGROUP
- TEXTAREA
- LABEL
- LABEL excluding enclosed LABEL
- BUTTON
- flow excluding A, INPUT, SELECT, TEXTAREA, LABEL, BUTTON, FORM, ISINDEX, FIELDSET, IFRAME
- block
- INS, DEL (special rules apply)