Difference in HTML and XHTML
What can be done with XHTML that cannot be with HTML. Do sites with XHTML look different then ones with HTML. If so, could you provide me with some examples of websites using XHTML
thanks
bryan
What can be done with XHTML that cannot be with HTML. Do sites with XHTML look different then ones with HTML. If so, could you provide me with some examples of websites using XHTML
thanks
bryan
Busy posted this at 22:01 — 15th January 2002.
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In brief, the "x" of XHTML is from XML, which allows you to make your own tags and things. but apart from that XHTML is just the next version of HTML, but true XHTML relies heavily on CSS, doesnt use, tags like, ,,,, .. all these are done with CSS. All tags in XHTML have to be lower case, all values have to have quotes (name="thename"), all tags have to be closed (except the doc type tag which is part caps, isnt closed but is only used for validating), also has to have the meta language tag (english, latin, french etc) done by way of charset. png's are catered for as well etc
You wont know what sites are done using html or xhtml (unless you use an older browser) and if you look at the soucre code on a site you'll see things like which is for closing single tags, later this will be changed to just or but older browser (think its vers5 and under) dont know this way and wouldnt disply the tag, so for now the gap must be used.
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