PART I: Introduction (Note: i am assuming you already know html)
Since some time, the internet has been relying on HTML... or Hyper Text Markup Language... Since it's been invented, many tries to replace it have been thought up, but none as successfull as XHTML (eXtensive Hyper Text Markup Language)... let's say that it's HTML cleaned up...
oh yeah... it's kinda like a combination of XML and HTML... so... there's that
PART II: The Rules of XHTML
As you may (or may not now)... XHTML uses TAGS to work (like HTML before him)... these tags have this look:
| <tag property="attribute">Content</tag> |
some tags (like "img" or "br") require no content, so they don't use a closing tag, in XHTML they close themselves ("/" is the closing character) Example:
| <img src="/img_articles/5515/image.jpg" alt="text" /> <br /> |
The document has two main parts:
| <head></head> (where you put info about the page, but not the actual content) <body></body> (the content of the page) |
| <h5><b> This is wrong </h5></b> <h5><b> This is not wrong</b></h5> |
| <img src=image.jpg alt=hello /> WRONG! <img src="/img_articles/5515/image.jpg" alt="hello" /> RIGHT!! |
List Of Doctype Declarations
So... if you plan to move from HTML to XHTML, take notice of all these things.
PART III: Ending
to validate your Markup (HTML or XHTML) go to:
the W3C validation service
I hope this was usefull for those of you that use HTML already, and more usefull for those who want to take a peak at the world of Markup Languages.
