XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

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XHTML:
Extensible
Hypertext Markup
Language
Brian Talbot
Web Designer
Simmons College Web Services
July 2005
This document is meant to serve primarily as a
guide to using XHTML (Extensible Hypertext
Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Stylesheets)
to create web pages, sites and interfaces.
There are three portions to this guide. The first
portion details what exactly XHMTL is, its purpose,
its history and its future.
The second portion walks through the various
parts of a correctly written XHTML file. How to
markup content within an XHTML page and using
hypertext and media within an XHTML webpage
will be discussed as well.
The third portion of this guide begins to focus on
using Cascading Style Sheets to visually style and
display the markup created in an XTHML Document.
What is XTHML?
XHTML, or Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
is one of the most modern building materials for
creating web pages. As a computer programming
language that is supported by web browsers and a
growing number of other applications, XHTML’s
purpose it to provide formatting to content using
Markup.
Note: Visually styling a web document is not a
direct responsibility of XHTML, rather CSS (Cascading
Style Sheets) are used to…