As I stated in Stylesheet Basics ⇒, another way to add styles is by using the style attribute of most XHTML tags or by adding a style tag on the XHTML’s head tag.

These approaches invalidate one of the goals of XHTML and CSS; which is to separate the data from the design that is why I discourage to use these methods. But sometimes, when handling complicated layouts and doing advanced javascripting on your XHTML page, you might need to use the style attribute to override the styles defined in your CSS or the style tag.

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So this is my first XHTML tutorial. The tutorials here will be strict to XHTML 1.1 W3C Standard and tested using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 (as of this writing) and Internet Explorer 6.0 (since I don’t want to upgrade to version 7.0). So let’s start it simple.

XHTML or Extensible Hypertext Markup Language is a markup language similar to HTML. It is also used for web pages but is also compatible with Mobile XHTML browsers. These small browsers have problems rendering non-XML standard webpages like HTML. XHTML is the XML-standard version of HTML. New tag constructs and rules are added. While redundant tags are also removed.

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