Testing display of HTML elements

This is 2nd level heading

This is a test paragraph.


This is 3rd level heading

This is a test paragraph.

This is 4th level heading

This is a test paragraph.

This is 5th level heading

This is a test paragraph.

This is 6th level heading

This is a test paragraph.

Basic block level elements

This is a normal paragraph (p element).

To add some length to it, let us mention that this page was

primarily written for testing the effect of user style sheets.

You can use it for various other purposes as well, like just checking how

your browser displays various HTML elements.

This is another paragraph. I think it needs to be added that

the set of elements tested is not exhaustive in any sense. I have selected

those elements for which it can make sense to write user style sheet rules,

in my opionion.

This is a block quotation containing a single

paragraph. Well, not quite, since this is not really

quoted text, but I hope you understand the point. After all, this

page does not use HTML markup very normally anyway.

The following contains address information about the author, in an address

element.

Jukka Korpela,

jkorpela@cs.tut.fi

Lists

This is a paragraph before an unnumbered list (ul). Note that

the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard

to tune in a user style sheet. You can't guess which paragraphs are

logically related to a list, e.g. as a "list header".

• One.
  
  
• Two.
  
  
• Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer. Note that
  
  for short items lists look better if they are compactly presented,
  
  whereas for long items, it would be better to have more vertical spacing between items.
  
  
• Four. This is the last item in this list.
  
  Let us terminate the list now without making any more fuss about it.
  
  

This is a paragraph before a numbered list (ol). Note that the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard to tune in a user style sheet. You can't guess which paragraphs are logically related to a list, e.g. as a "list header".

1. One.
   
   
2. Two.
   
   
3. Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer. Note that if
   
   items are short, lists look better if they are compactly presented,
   
   whereas for long items, it would be better to have more vertical spacing between items.
   
   
4. Four. This is the last item in this list.
   
   Let us terminate the list now without making any more fuss about it.
   
   

This is a paragraph before a definition list (dl). In principle, such a list should consist of terms and associated definitions. But many authors use dl elements for fancy "layout" things. Usually the effect is not too bad, if you design user style sheet rules for dl which are suitable for real definition lists.

recursion

see recursion

recursion, indirect

see indirect recursion

indirect recursion

see recursion, indirect

term

a word or other expression taken into specific use in a well-defined meaning, which is often defined rather rigorously, even formally, and may differ quite a lot from an everyday meaning

Text-level markup

• CSS (an abbreviation;
  
  abbr markup used)
  
  
• radar (an acronym; acronym markup used)
  
  
• bolded (b markup used - just bolding with unspecified
  
  semantics)
  
  
• big thing (big markup used)
  
  
• Origin of Species (a book title;
  
  cite markup used)
  
  
• a[i] = b[i] + c[i); (computer code; code markup used)
  
  
• here we have some deleted text (del markup used)
  
  
• an octet is an entity consisting of eight bits
  
  (dfn markup used for the term being defined)
  
  
• this is very simple (em markup used for emphasizing
  
  a word)
  
  
• Homo sapiens (should appear in italics; i markup used)
  
  
• here we have some inserted text (ins markup used)
  
  
• type yes when prompted for an answer (kbd markup
  
  used for text indicating keyboard input)
  
  
• Hello! (q markup used for quotation)
  
  
• He said: She said Hello! (a quotation inside a quotation)
  
  
• you may get the message Core dumped at times
  
  (samp markup used for sample output)
  
  
• this is not that important (small markup used)
  
  
• overstruck (strike markup used; note:
  
  s is a nonstandard synonym for strike)
  
  
• this is highlighted text (strong
  
  markup used)
  
  
• In order to test how subscripts and superscripts (sub and
  
  sup markup) work inside running text, we need some
  
  dummy text around constructs like x₁ and H₂O
  
  (where subscripts occur). So here is some fill so that
  
  you will (hopefully) see whether and how badly the subscripts
  
  and superscripts mess up vertical spacing between lines.
  
  Now superscripts: M^lle, 1^st, and then some
  
  mathematical notations: e^x, sin² x,
  
  and some nested superscripts (exponents) too:
  
  e^x2 and f(x)^g(x)a+b+c
  
  (where 2 and a+b+c should appear as exponents of exponents).
  
  
• text in monospace font (tt markup used)
  
  
• underlined text (u markup used)
  
  
• the command cat filename displays the
  
  file specified by the filename (var markup
  
  used to indicate a word as a variable).
  
  

Some of the elements tested above are typically displayed in a monospace font, often using the same presentation for all of them. This tests whether that is the case on your browser:

• This is sample text inside code markup
  
  
• This is sample text inside kbd markup
  
  
• This is sample text inside samp markup
  
  
• This is sample text inside tt markup
  
  

Links

• main page
  
  
• Unicode Standard, chapter 6
  
  

This is a text paragraph that contains some inline links. Generally, inline links (as opposite to e.g. links lists) are problematic from the usability perspective, but they may have use as “incidental”, less relevant links. See the document Links Want To Be Links.

Forms

This is a form containing various fields (with some initial values (defaults) set, so that you can see how input text looks like without actually typing it):

Button: A cool button

Reset button:

Single-line text input field:

Multi-line text input field (textarea): Default text.

The following two radio buttons are inside a fieldset element with a legend:

Legend

Radio button 1

Radio button 2 (initially checked)

Check those that apply

Checkbox 1

Checkbox 2 (initially checked)

A select element with size="1" (dropdown box): one two (default) three

A select element with size="3" (listbox): one two (default) three

Submit button:

Tables

The following table has a caption. The first row and the first column contain table header cells (th elements) only; other cells are data cells (td elements), with align="right" attributes:

Sample table: Areas of the Nordic countries, in sq km

Country	Total area	Land area
Denmark	43,070	42,370
Finland	337,030	305,470
Iceland	103,000	100,250
Norway	324,220	307,860
Sweden	449,964	410,928

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