Introduction
XHTML is a standard for representing the structure and content of a web page. Its
predecessor HTML not only repesented the content and structure, but also included
aspects such as the presentation of the information on the screen. However, attempting
to change the
design and presentation of the information using XHTML is now frowned
upon and all page styling should now be done using a technique/standard called Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS)
This change of emphasis is a mixed blessing. It makes creation of page content very
straightforward, and simplifies the XHTML datafile, however, to make the page look
'cool' requires a lot of effort using CSS. This introduction to XHTML will only
deal with the basic XHTML elements for coding the structure and content of a web
page. CSS will be dealt with in a later tutorial.