Bare-Bones HTML/XHTML Document Templates
In this post I have assembled a concise collection of conforming, bare-bones document templates for just about every DOCTYPE for HTML, XHTML, and more.
Related: HTML5 Table Template »
Document Templates
Doctype Declarations
In addition to the complete document templates listed above, this post also provides the following doctype declarations:
- HTML 2.0
- HTML 3.2
- HTML 5.0
- XHTML 2.0
- MathML 1.01
- MathML 2.0
- SVG 1.0
- SVG 1.1 Full
- SVG 1.1 Basic
- SVG 1.1 Tiny
- XHTML + MathML + SVG
- XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile (XHTML Host Language)
- XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile (SVG Host Language)
HTML 5.0
HTML 5.0 ↩
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>Related: HTML5 Starter Template »
XHTML 1.0
XHTML 1.0 Strict ↩
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>XHTML 1.0 Strict</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>XHTML 1.0 Transitional ↩
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>XHTML 1.0 Transitional</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>XHTML 1.0 Frameset ↩
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Accessible XHTML 1.0 Frameset</title>
</head>
<frameset>
<noframes>
<body>
<p>[..alternate accessibility information..]</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>XHTML Basic 1.0 ↩
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>XHTML Basic 1.0</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1 ↩
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>XHTML 1.1</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>XHTML Basic 1.1 ↩
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>XHTML Basic 1.1</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>HTML 4.01
HTML 4.01 Strict ↩
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML 4.01 Strict</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>HTML 4.01 Transitional ↩
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML 4.01 Transitional</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>HTML 4.01 Frameset ↩
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML 4.01 Frameset</title>
</head>
<frameset>
<noframes>
<body>
<p>[..alternate accessibility information..]</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>Doctype Declarations
Doctype Declarations ↩
HTML 2.0
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">HTML 3.2
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">HTML 5.0
<!DOCTYPE html>XHTML 2.0
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 2.0//EN" "TBD">MathML 1.01
<!DOCTYPE math SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml1/mathml.dtd">MathML 2.0
<!DOCTYPE math PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD MathML 2.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/dtd/mathml2.dtd">SVG 1.0
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">SVG 1.1 Full
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">SVG 1.1 Basic
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1 Basic//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11-basic.dtd">SVG 1.1 Tiny
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1 Tiny//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11-tiny.dtd">XHTML + MathML + SVG
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg.dtd">XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile (XHTML Host Language)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg.dtd">XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile (SVG Host Language)
<!DOCTYPE svg:svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg.dtd">
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3 responses to “Bare-Bones HTML/XHTML Document Templates”
Thanks for the templates. As for conforming XHTML 1.1 doctypes, I have seen the
htmlelement written as:<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SCHEMA/xhtml11.xsd"xml:lang="en">Are you sure that’s not for XHTML 2.0? I have seen this:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xhtml2 TBD"xml:lang="en">..but i think that only pertains to XHTML 2..
Note to self: remember to specify the document language via
<htmllang="en">for HTML and<html...xml:lang="en">for XHTML.