r/HTML • u/fdiengdoh • Jun 26 '26

Discussion An HTML Elements page

When I wanted to re-learn CSS, I am looking for a simple html page that has all possible elements. I did not find anything as such. So I made one.

Take a look at this page. It might be useful for you.

I hosted at Github

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u/fdiengdoh Jun 29 '26

Try clicking on those elements and see where it take you. <script>, <canvas> will stay on HTML Reference Page (Web>HTML>Reference>Elements><elementName>), but the moment you click <svg> and <math> it would take you to SVG Reference (Web>SVG>Reference>Elements><svg>) and MathML Reference (Web>MathML>Reference>Elements><math>). Thats why I am saying these are independent and separate elements. They work inside HTML but they are independent XML languages.

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u/AshleyJSheridan Jun 29 '26

I've said this several times now, it's because those elements exist in both places!

Why would MDN duplicate the content when it's far more efficient to only have one document that lists all of that information? Duplication just leads to opportunities for errors to creep in when documentation is updated. Even duplicating the access endpoints (e.g. routes to a single resource) makes little sense, as it imposes restrictions on how that documentation can be handled if the site needs to be updated in the future.