What is HTML?
To put it simply: HTML is used to make web pages. It's very simple. In the next 1 to 2 minutes you will follow me to make a simple web page using HTML.
To put it more complicated: HTML (abbreviation of HyperTextMarkupLanguage), which is the hypertext link markup language. It is a universal language for publishing hypertext files (commonly known as web pages) on the Internet.
What is XHTML? A more advanced and difficult technology?
To put it simply: X is meant to scare people. In fact, XHTML is rigorous and accurate HTML. If HTML is Chinese, then XHTML is standard Mandarin. For friends who have just started learning web design, learning XHTML directly is the best choice.
To put it more complicatedly: XHTML is an "upgraded" product of HTML. In fact, it also belongs to the HTML family. Compared with previous versions of HTML, it has stricter writing standards and better cross-platform capabilities. Due to certain needs, XHTML hands over some of the functions that previous versions of HTML could achieve to CSS, which means you will need to learn two technologies. But this is indeed the future development trend of the Web. X stands for "expandable."
Basics of learning XHTML
Learning XHTML does not require any foundation. On the contrary, XHTML is the necessary foundation for learning many other things. Some people may have heard that you need to learn HTML before you can learn XHTML. This is not the case. The XHTML tutorial of Cainiao8.com is for novices in web design without any foundation. If you are already proficient in HTML, there is no need to read our introductory tutorial. We have prepared From HTML to XHTML for webmasters who are already familiar with HTML.
How to learn XHTML
Reading XHTML tutorials and examples is certainly a good way to learn XHTML, but this alone is definitely not enough. In the process of learning, you can find some sites that you like to browse before and see how they use XHTML in the actual website design process. You only need to click the "View" button on the browser toolbar and then select "View Source File" to see the code of the page.
Okay, that’s it for the introduction to XHTML. Let’s start learning XHTML.
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XHTML Tutorial - Framework
XHTML Tutorial - Form
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