HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions

New to HTML and have some questions about XHTML? Chances are pretty good that the answers that you seek can be found right here. You will learn why XHTML became needed as XML became predominant.

Even for those of you that are familiar with all of this, you will find all sorts of great information here. MY favorite FAQ listed here is the one asking why it should make any difference whether or not HTML is valid. After all, it is displaying correctly in the browser.

HTML is probably the most successful document markup language in the world. But when XML was introduced, a two-day workshop was organised to discuss whether a new version of HTML in XML was needed. The opinion at the workshop was a clear ‘Yes’: with an XML-based HTML other XML languages could include bits of XHTML, and XHTML documents could include bits of other markup languages. We could also take advantage of the redesign to clean up some of the more untidy parts of HTML, and add some new needed functionality, like better forms.