iSelfSchooling - A Basic Guide for World Wide Web

XHTML was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a transition between HTML and XML. XML stands for eXtensible Markp Language. XHTML is almost like HTML except:

· Tags are in lowercase,

· Well formed the nested tags, and

· Tag attributes must be in quoted and closed.

A simple example of XHTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitionl.dtd">

<head>

<title>Welcome to the iSelfSchooling XHTML example page!</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Welcome to the iSelfSchooling XHTML example page!</h1>

<br />

<p><font size="+2">Welcome</font> to the iSelfSchooling XHTML example page!</p>

</body>

</html>

Type it in your notepad and save it as test01.html. Then test it in your browser by typing c:.html in address box as your URL.