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Is there a difference?
Does anyone know if I can head directly for XHTML without learning HTML?
Is there a difference?
Is there a difference?
- Hi aaron
XHTML is essentially a rewrite of HTML using XML syntax. Not that vastly different in appearance from earlier forms of HTML but more robust and flexible. Both now and looking to the future, there are sound reasons to use XHTML. Equally, if you are not yet familiar with any versions of HTML and had to jump from one to the other, perhaps to understand an older website, there aren't too many differences.
If you are just starting out learning web code, concentrate on XHTML, along with CSS for layout. You will inevitably come across and learn the differences between this and other forms anyway. No need to think of HTML and XHTML as completely different languages, just regard one as a development of the other and use the advantages of that development.