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XHTML
Learn all the tags for XHTML
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Computer Science
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12/17/2007

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Term
<tb>
Definition
this is the tag for a table
Term

<base/>

Definition

Definition

To resolve relative URLs, Web browsers will use the base URL from where the Web page was downloaded. In some circumstances, it is necessary to instruct the Web browser to use a different base URL, in which case the base element is used.

Example

In the following example, regardless of where the Web page was downloaded from, the CSS file will be downloaded from http://xhtml.com/screen.css and the image will be downloaded from http://xhtml.com/images/logo.gif.

Term

<body/>

Definition

Definition

The body element contains the contents

of a Web page.

Example

<body>
   <h1>Welcome To My Web Site</h1>
   <p>My name is Jack Mills and I live in ...</p>
</body>

Term

Is XHTML Case Sensitive?

Definition
Yes. All tags in XHTML are lower case.
Term

 

<head/>

Definition

Definition

The head element contains information about the current document, such as its title, keywords that may be useful to search engines, and other data that is not considered to be document content. This information is usually not displayed by browsers.

Example
<head>
   <title>XHTML Reference</title>
</head>

Term

In Line TAGS (elements)

Definition

In Line tags flow within a block of Text

 

Examples:

 

<em>empahsis tag will make text itallic</em>

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<DOCTYPE/>

Definition

Definition

(DOCTYPE) points to a specific DTD That should be specified at the top of the Web page.

 

Example

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

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