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 by default.
It can also be useful when testing conversions from HTML
format to other formats, since some elements can go wrong then.
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.
div
element. Authors may use such elements insteadof paragraph markup for various reasons. (End of
div
.)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.
jkorpela@cs.tut.fiPäivänsäteenkuja 4 A, Espoo, Finland
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.
The following is a menu
list:
The following is a dir
list:
- One.
- Two.
- Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer so that it will
probably wrap to the next line in rendering.
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 ».
- One.
- Two.
- 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. - 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) - large size (
font size=6
markup used) - Courier font (
font face=Courier
markup used) - red text (
font color=red
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
deletedtext (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
(a quotation inside a quotation)Hello!
- 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 forstrike
) - 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: Mlle, 1st, and then some
mathematical notations: ex, sin2 x,
and some nested superscripts (exponents) too:
ex2 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
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
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:
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 |
Character test
The following table has some sample characters with
annotations. If the browser’s default font does not
contain all of them, they may get displayed using backup fonts.
This may cause stylistic differences, but it should not
prevent the characters from being displayed at all.
Char. | Explanation | Notes |
---|---|---|
ê | e with circumflex | Latin 1 character, should be ok |
— | em dash | Windows Latin 1 character, should be ok, too |
Ā | A with macron (line above) | Latin Extended-A character, not present in all fonts |
Ω | capital omega | A Greek letter |
− | minus sign | Unicode minus |
⌀ | diameter sign | relatively rare in fonts |
Hyphenation
In the following, a width setting should cause some hyphenation,
depending on support to various methods of hyphenation.
CSS-based hyphenation
Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors.
JavaScript-driven hyphenation
Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors.
Explicit hyphenation hints (soft hyphens)
Until recently the great
majority of naturalists
believed that species were
immutable
productions,
and had been separately created.
This view has been ably maintained by many authors.
Jukka Korpela
Date of creation: 2000-09-15.
Last update: 2013-03-21.