Emacs HTML 3.2 Mode - Features

Typing HTML

• Short-cuts for nearly every HTML 3.2 tag.
• Typing characters with accent as usual inserts HTML entities for those letters, e.g. "´e" inserts a "é", a "^a" inserts a "â".
• Entities for umlauts or diëresis can be inserted by typing the prefix "&" ("&" is the HTML special character for entities) and then the wanted character, e.g. "&o" inserts a "ö".
• Entities for characters with other additional signs, as ring or tilde can be inserted by typing the prefix "C-c o" or "C-c ~" and the wanted character, e.g. "C-c o a" inserts a "å" and a "C-c ~ n" inserts a "ñ".
• Entities for other special characters are divided on the prefixes "&", "´", "`" and "^", e.g. "&c" inserts a "©" and a "´0" inserts a "ø". (All HTML 3.2 entities have a short-cut in this mode.)
• Short-cuts for structures, such as lists and tables.
• See also table of short-cuts and function names.

Correcting HTML

Note: This mode does not provide syntax checking, but it can help correcting frequently made typos, like forgetting some quotation marks around a parameter´s value or forgetting to close the body or html tag. These functions can also be called automatically when opening an HTML file

• Function for adding quotation marks around the values of URL parameter - say HREF, USEMAP and SRC - if they aren´t quoted now.
• Function for adding quotation marks around the alternative text of an inline image if it isn´t quote now.
• Function for adding quotation marks around every value of a tag parameter if it isn´t quoted now.
• Short-cuts for completing or - if not existent - adding basic structures, such as doctype string, document title, header and body.

Other features and help

• Menu with the most important HTML tags and mode functions and their short-cuts, if existent.
• When you type "C-h" after typing one the special character prefixes, you´ll get a list of all entities, which can be inserted by that prefix and their HTML code.
• IMHO fully documented source code, all interactive functions should have a document string, short-cuts, function names and use are explained at the beginning of the file html32-mode.el.