a change. So XHTML comes with a much stricter error handling. All the content onward is bold. Include a space before the trailing / and > of empty elements, e.g. Attributes WebThe HTML standard does not require lowercase attribute names. Why would anybody want to write uppercase tags? HTML contributes very little to overall page sizes and this modern way of writing makes pages harder to process. Such a declaration is required when The XHTML family is designed with general user agent interoperability in mind. Back in the day all-caps HTML seemed to be the standard and as I recall the argument was that it was more readable / easier to distinguish between HTML and Content. WebAttributes should be quoted Tags should nest not tag Unused elements may be minimized Unknown attributes are ignored by the browser. Your Questions Answered #4 | HTML5 Doctor Readability? But in this case, it is completely avoidable since omitting the closing tag, causes extra spaces and newlines to be parsed as part of that element. Except for a few. attribute in HTML 4. The annotated contents of this file are available in this separate section for completeness. Note this problem doesn't affect user agents XHTML Work by W3C is addressing ways to specify conformance for documents involving multiple namespaces. Didnt know about the quotes, will remove them too. Still, I wouldnt suggest adopting all of these suggestions. These are personal syntax preferences presented as best practices, and that theme runs through the supporting articles. Remember that some attributes have defaults that allow. The annotated contents of this file are available in this separate section for completeness. Here is a list of the minimized attributes in HTML and how they should be written in XHTML: The lang attribute applies to almost every XHTML element. It specifies the language of the content within an element. If you use the lang attribute in an element, you must also add the xml:lang attribute, like this: An example root element might look like: There must be a DOCTYPE declaration in the document prior to the root element. Which is your point. selector syntax even if the user agent does not read the DTD. What is XHTML? The XHTML namespace may be used with other XML namespaces as per [XMLNS], although such documents are not strictly conforming XHTML 1.0 Within the XHTML namespace, user agents are expected to recognize the "class" attribute. SGML gives the writer of a DTD the ability to exclude specific elements from being contained within an element. and . This specification is a Superseded Recommendation. Just because you can, doesnt mean that you should. Note the entity for the Euro currency sign (€ or I dont think write HTML the HTML way makes it better in any way, on the other hand I really think it makes less safer. & or ]]> or --.