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jgthms/html-reference
HTML Reference: a free guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes
A static reference site covering every HTML5 element and attribute with live examples, built by Jeremy Thomas (who also made Bulma and cssreference.io). It's aimed at developers who want to quickly check what an element does and how attributes behave without reading MDN in full.
Each element page pairs a description with a working in-browser example, which is more useful than text-only references. The visual design is clean and the site structure is simple enough that it loads fast and stays out of the way. Coverage is thorough — obscure elements like bdi, wbr, rtc, and hgroup are documented alongside the common ones. The source is a straightforward Jekyll site with no heavy build pipeline, so self-hosting or forking is trivial.
Last push was July 2024 and several newer HTML features — popover attribute, invoketarget, the dialog element's full interaction model, declarative shadow DOM — aren't covered. The content license (CC BY-NC-SA) is a hidden catch: you can't use the content commercially, so you can't fork it into a paid product or tool. The static generation approach means attribute browser-compatibility data is either missing or stale; MDN still wins for nuanced questions about what actually works across browsers. There's no search that works without JavaScript enabled.