Thursday, December 8, 2011
difference between html and xhtml
http://raventools.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-html-and-xhtml/
So, XHTML is a new version of HTML that is valid XML code. There’s not a huge difference between XHTML and HTML. The biggest thing is that all your tags must have a matching closing tag. For example, you know that when you create a link the opening has a matching . But what about the
tag? You don’t write
some text
do you? But according to the rules of XML, each tag has to have a matching closing tag. So, in XHTML you now have to write your
tags like
. That’s called a “self-closing” tag.
In addition to requiring every tag to have a closing tag (or be self-closing), they also got rid of some old tags and attributes that had been replaced by CSS. For example, the tag is no longer allowed. And the width attributes in tags, like , is gone, too. There are too many little changes like this to name here, but I think that should give you an idea.
tag? You don’t write
some text
do you? But according to the rules of XML, each tag has to have a matching closing tag. So, in XHTML you now have to write your
tags like
. That’s called a “self-closing” tag.
In addition to requiring every tag to have a closing tag (or be self-closing), they also got rid of some old tags and attributes that had been replaced by CSS. For example, the tag is no longer allowed. And the width attributes in tags, like , is gone, too. There are too many little changes like this to name here, but I think that should give you an idea.
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