The new version of HTML, is the XHTML 1.1, which is written in XML instead of SGML this latest standard has been in use since 2003. Before that, Xhtml 1.0 became an official recommendation by the World Wide Web consortium in January 2001.

The content of each page is contained in structured semantic XHTML.

To make a link you enclose the words (or image) to be linked between tags. Set the value of the href attribute to the URL you wish to link to.

Congratulations! What for? For getting to here, you've got past the hardest part. Whether you understood everything you read so far or just absorbed as much as you could, the next few sections should be a lot easier going as we look at the different elements in your XHTML arsenal and the meaning that they have.

The name says it all: XHTML combines XML with HTML. More formally, XHTML is an XML rewriting of HTML. What does that mean in practice?

To answers these needs, the W3C decided that instead of making an HTML version 5, it would turn to a different language that it had been developing: Extensible Markup Language, or XML.

Here are all the examples in the appendix, as now planned.

This was badly designed in three ways: It wasn't backwards compatible: browsers that didn't know about just showed nothing at that point.

XHTML stands for Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language. It's basically a reformulation of HTML 4.0 as an XML application. It's the bridge between HTML and XML and acts as a ramp for the slow transition from badly coded HTML documents to the versatile world of XML.

How to Use HTML & XHTML. by Gary Rebholz, ... Fantastic No-Nonsense Guide to HTML
and XHTML. This is a very no-nonsense approach to building web pages. ...

This tutorial is aimed at the average web designer with a decent knowledge of HTML (version 4) - it assumes that you know the basic HTML tags. It draws some content from the W3C's XHTML 1.0 Recommendation (the W3C is the organisation which sets web related standards).

Versions of HTML previous to HTML 4 are like the Portrait of Dorian Gray. They may still look pretty decent in a browser, but underneath they are turning decrepit (or deprecated, to use the W3C's term).

This chapter contains instructions on how to define XML Schema modules that are compatible with the XHTML Modularization implementation via XML Schema [XMLSCHEMA]. This is in an appendix so that it can be a drop in replacement for the corresponding appendix in XHTML Modularization [XHTMLMOD].

Linking to other pages is what turns a collection of webpages into a website. Without links a website is totally useless, and the Internet would not be what it is today!

If you already have a web page written in HTML and you would like to convert it into XHTML, then follow the simple steps in this tutorial. If you are planning on starting from scratch, then you should start at our XHTML Tutorials instead.

Congratulations! What for? For getting to here, you've got past the hardest part. Whether you understood everything you read so far or just absorbed as much as you could, the next few sections should be a lot easier going as we look at the different elements in your XHTML arsenal and the meaning that they have.

HTML has been the best way to create a Web site for many years. If you want to create well formed an HTML Web site you need to follow a few simple XHTML rules to move your Web site from HTML to XHTML. Don't worry, it's not as hard as it sounds.

XHTML basic: a living example of modularization. ... One very clean example is XHTML
Basic, which became a W3C Candidate Recommendation in November 2000. ...

The first thing that strikes you when you see an XHTML 1.1 WYSIWYG editor, like XStandard
for example, is the absence of formatting tools like color pickers or ...

Elements and tags are the building block of XHTML. You need to fully understand both of these concepts to be able to write Web pages properly. We already touched on how they work in our example above but we're going to take a closer look now.