Reading & Exam Zeid: Chapter 9: XHTML Essential p Read before EXAM 1 Exam is Monday Oct. 25 th Review on Friday Oct. 22 nd

Agenda Three definitions of a web page Website vs. web page HTML vs. XHTML XHTML document structure Important HTML tags

Three definitions of a web page Document View. The easiest way to define a web page is to think of a web page as a single HTML document. For instance, in your public_html folder there may be two web pages index.html style.html

Three definitions of a web page Browser Display View The Document View does NOT necessarily define a web page Web pages can include images and data that are stored separately from the HTML document. Perhaps a better definition is to consider a web page to be all of the content that is visible in a web browser when a page is displayed.

Three definitions of a web page URL View The Browser Display View does NOT necessarily define a web page either Web pages can include meta tags and other information that is never displayed. Also, web browsers display content differently. Another definition of a web page: All of the content that is potentially available at a URL.

Three definitions of a web page A Fourth View (combination of the three) The URL view implies that a simple.gif or.jpg file would be considered a web page. That’s OK in general, but I won’t count that as a web page in this course. Fourth Definition: An HTML document that is available via a URL, including any content that can potentially be displayed when opening the URL in a Web Browser. If the URL changes consider it a different web page.

Website vs. web page Link Definition: A collection of web pages that are connected via hyperlinks One of my web pages links to RPI’s website. Does that mean that my website and RPI’s website are the same?

Website vs. web page Server Definition: A collection of web pages that are stored on the same web server. But, some websites ( have content that is stored on multiple serverswww.yahoo.com However, the URL is always the same

Website vs. web page URL Definition: A collection of web pages that are available via the same URL Domain. Example: But, my Bea Arthur Tribute has nothing to do with Computer Science and Siena College.

Website vs. web page Content Definition: A collection of inter-connected web pages devoted to a particular topic or concept, where each page is authored by a particular person or group of people. This definition is my favorite.

HTML vs. XHTML HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language The concept of hypertext was invented in HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in HTML is a set of syntax (tags) for annotating documents on the WWW. Web browsers simply interpret the syntax. HTML is a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) SGML was a general syntax for annotating any kind of document (IBM 1960’s)

HTML vs. XHTML XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. XML is also a subset of SGML that is designed to be more useful. XML is basically a set of syntax for defining tags. Thus, you can use XML do define your own markup tags for any kind of document. XML is used extensively so that different systems can share data and documents.

HTML vs. XHTML To enhance HTML, The WorldWide Consortium ( modified HTML to conform to the XML standards. XHTML is simply HTML code that conforms to the XML standards. Page 247 describes how XHTML syntax is different than HTML syntax. Before we can learn about these differences we will learn about HTML.

HTML Document Structure Everything in here will be interpreted as an html document

HTML Document Structure Title, meta information, style sheet links, javascript code... Visible body of the web page.

XHTML Document Structure Title, meta information, style sheet links, javascript code... Visible body of the web page.

Tag Displayed in Title Bar <meta name=“description” content=“The best marmot website on earth!”

Tag The body tag has a lot of attributes How many attributes are there?

Tag Defines a paragraph Using CSS styles you can redefine the indent Here you can give a paragraph a text style. You can never redefine the blank line created by a new paragraph.

Tag Header 1  24pt Header 2  18pt Header 3  14pt CSS styles have made these obsolete

Other Text Formatting Tags Bold Italic Emphasis Same as on most browsers Bolder Same as on most browsers Smaller Font Font size depends on browser (8-10pt) May not be smaller if you’re already using 10pt font

Other Text Formatting Tags This is how DreamWeaver controls indenting However, its NOT like a tab diplayed withfixed-width font what is a fixed-width font anyway? displayed verbatim w/ fixed-width font counts white-space and new lines just like but does not create a blank line more robust than because you can specify alignment

Single Tags Line break Horizontal rule Can change color, size, width, shading, etc. Won’t properly display in DreamWeaver Image is inserted (native size) If you specify a different size the browser is responsible for re-scaling Many optional attributes

XHTML Requirement HTML allows single tags i.e., XML requires every tag to be closed with Start tag (Tag is opened) End tag (Tag is closed) Single tags must be closed. i.e., (Open and closed in one tag).

Special Characters &#code 2 to 4 digit code is used See tables on page 259 A picture is worth a thousand words. Some special characters have non-numeric codes i.e., &nbsp Many of these don’t work unless the browser has an extended character set plug-in installed.

Anchor Tag Actual Link Standard hyperlink to webpage Places an anchor in a document Hyperlink to the label Intra-document link Somewhat obsolete. Why?

Lists Ordered Lists (numbered) list item1 list item2 list item3 Unordered Lists (bulleted) Can be nested; Example