Introduction

The HTML4 Test Suite is based upon the W3C HTML 4.01 recommendation. This test suite is applicable to user agents (particularly visual user agents). The W3C Validator should be used for validation of document authoring. The test suite consists of the following:

• Test Suite Documentation (this document)
• HTML Testable Assertions from the HTML 4.01 specification including author assertions
• Test Files, self documenting tests including test purpose and testable assertion numbers.
• Test Navigation pages for ease of navigation and reference to specifications.

This document explains how to use and create the tests and test harnesses for the HTML Test Suite. The HTML Test Suite is in the TNG format used by the CSS Test Suites. This document is derived from the CSS Test Suite Documentation. Concepts from the SVG Conformance Test Manual and the XML/SOAP Test Suite are also incorporated.

Sample text and hyperlinks from test suites are presented in this document with a thin grey border like this: test suite text. test suite hyperlink. Sample hyperlinks from test suites are not underlined to avoid misrepresenting them as actual hyperlinks in this document.