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~~~~~XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML~~~~

In this tutorial you will learn the difference between HTML and XHTML. We will also show you how this Web site was converted to XHTML.

What Is XHTML?

  • XHTML stands for E X tensible H yper T ext M arkup L anguage
  • 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 Recommendation

All New Browsers Support XHTML

XHTML is compatible with HTML 4.01.

All new browsers have support for XHTML.

About This Tutorial

The next chapters of this tutorial will explain:

  • Why you should use XHTML
  • The syntax of XHTML
  • How W3Schools was converted to XHTML
  • XHTML validation
  • XHTML modularization

XHTML is a combination of HTML and XML (EXtensible Markup Language).

XHTML consists of all the elements in HTML 4.01 combined with the syntax of XML.

Why XHTML?

We have reached a point where many pages on the WWW contain "bad" HTML.

The following HTML code will work fine if you view it in a browser, even if it does not follow the HTML rules:

<html> <head> <title>This is bad HTML</title> <body> <h1>Bad HTML </body>

XML is a markup language where everything has to be marked up correctly, which results in "well-formed" documents.

XML was designed to describe data and HTML was designed to display data. 

Today's market consists of different browser technologies, some browsers run Internet on computers, and some browsers run Internet on mobile phones and hand helds. The last-mentioned do not have the resources or power to interpret a "bad" markup language.

Therefore - by combining HTML and XML, and their strengths, we got a markup language that is useful now and in the future - XHTML.

XHTML pages can be read by all XML enabled devices AND while waiting for the rest of the world to upgrade to XML supported browsers, XHTML gives you the opportunity to write "well-formed" documents now, that work in all browsers and that are backward browser compatible !!!

Differences Between XHTML And HTML

The Most Important Differences:

  • XHTML elements must be properly nested
  • XHTML elements must always be closed
  • XHTML elements must be in lowercase
  • XHTML documents must have one root element

What topic includes this XHTML tutorials ....?

  go to the xhtml_syntax_pages

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