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XHTML Tutorial: Standards-Based Web Design by Paul Bohman
XHTML Full Tutorial
Introduction to XHTML and ‘Web Pages’
XHTML and “Web Pages”
So what is a web page? When you type in www dot whatever, what
happens? How do you get the information? How did it get there to
begin with? The short answer is that a web page is nothing but text.
Sometimes that text includes references to images, and sometimes
the text has been programmed to do things other than just sit
there, but a web page is still just text. This is an over-simplification,
but it’s still true (or at least it’s true enough for our purposes).
The text in web pages has some extra invisible “tags” or “elements” or “markup” (these terms often are
used interchangeably by developers) that give text some formatting. For example, if you want to
designate a chunk of text as a paragraph, you have to enclose it in paragraph elements, like this:
You put a