XHTML Page Structure

Valid XHTML Syntax

A Valid XTHML Web Page

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XHTML Page Structure

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>XHTML Template</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
</head>

The Document Type Definition (DTD)


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Reasons to use a DTD

A DTD helps the browser to render a web page faster
Allows you to use the W3C Validation Markup Service to check the syntax of your (X)HTML (and hence discovers errors that may affect the way your page is rendered by various browsers).

XHTML Namespace

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Content-Type Meta

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Content-Type indicates the type of media contained in the file.

Content-Style-Type Meta

<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />

Content-Style-ype indicates the type of presentation used by the file.

XHTML Page Structure

Valid XHTML Syntax

XHTML Page Structure

Valid XHTML Syntax

A Valid XTHML Web Page

XHTML Page Structure

The Document Type Definition (DTD)

Reasons to use a DTD

XHTML Namespace

Content-Type Meta

Content-Style-Type Meta

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