Creating Valid HTML Documents Means Cleaner Code and Easier Maintenance
I'll be the first one to let you in on a secret: building Web pages isn't hard. With the software that is available now, you can write your Web page and have it up and viewable in half an hour. And with these tools, why would you need to run an HTML validator on your HTML to find errors? Well, you don't have to, but if you want your pages to stay viewable through future versions of HTML, or you want newer browsers to be able to display it correctly, then writing valid HTML is the
XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML.
What You Should Already Know
Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:
* HTML and the basics of building web pages
If you want to study HTML first, please read our HTML tutorial.
What Is XHTML?
* XHTML stands for EXtensible HyperText Markup Language
* XHTML is aimed to replace HTML
* XHTML is almost identical to HTML 4.01
* XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML
* XHTML is HTML defined as an XML application
* XHTML is a W3C
XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML.
What You Should Already Know
Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:
* HTML and the basics of building web pages
If you want to study HTML first, please read our HTML tutorial.
What Is XHTML?
* XHTML stands for EXtensible HyperText Markup Language
* XHTML is aimed to replace HTML
* XHTML is almost identical to HTML 4.01
* XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML
* XHTML is HTML defined as an XML application
* XHTML is a W3C
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