XHTML Tutorial: Standards-Based Web Design

This tutorial teaches how to design web content using standards-based XHTML. You don't have to know any HTML or XHTML. The tutorial starts at the beginning, and moves through pretty much everything you need to know to have a solid foundation as web developer. When you finish this tutorial, you'll be ready to move on to the CSS Tutorial (CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets) to learn how to make your XHTML content snazzier.

View the full XHTML tutorial on one very long web page, or view each item by topic:

• Introduction to XHTML and 'Web Pages'
• Basic XHTML Components and Syntax
• Block Elements vs. Inline Elements
• XHTML Elements (Tags)
• XHTML Attributes
• Your First Web Page
• Head
• Title
• Doctype
• Character Encoding
• Paragraphs
• Headings
• Blockquote
• Line Breaks (br)
• Horizontal Rules
• Strong and Em
• Superscript and Subscript
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Comments
• Lists
• Unordered (Bulleted) Lists
• Ordered (Numbered) Lists
• Definition Lists
• Links
• Links to External Web Sites
• Relative vs. Absolute Links
• Links to the Index Page of a Folder or Web Site
• Anchors and Same-Page Links
• Links to Email Addresses
• Links to Non-HTML Content
• File Names
• Images
• Tables
• Simple Data Tables
• Complex Data Tables
• The <div> Element
• The <span> Element
• Frames
• Iframes
• Interactivity
• Forms