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XHTML and CSS

Rick Ells UW Technology http://staff.washington.edu/rells/

Using HTML/XHTML
XHTML is relatively simple. You do most of your work with about twenty tags. XHTML is orderly and structured Good references and tutorial sites are available Follow the standards and your work will be much simpler, more consistent, and your results more reliable
Plus your co-workers will like you more

Device Independence

Your audience may view your site with many different devices and browser types.

The Browser

The browser is not print!

The Browser Is Not Print


No fixed page size No fixed page length User can change the font size User can link to her/his own local style sheet Screen size can be tiny or huge

The Adjustable Document

The Birth of HTML


Created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN Open standard developed under supervision of the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org)
Works to ensure the full potential of the Web for shared, integrated functionality is realized

The History of HTML/XHTML



1992 HTML first defined 1994 HTML 2.0 1995 Netscape specific non-standard HTML 1996 HTML 3.2, compromise version 1997 HTML 4.0, separates content from presentation 1998 XML standard for writing Web languages 2000 XHTML 1.0, XML compliant HTML 2002 XHTML 2.0

Problems With HTML


Competing versions of browsers introduced features beyond the standards Inconsistent implementations of display engines and scripting Content and presentation mixed together
Layout often done with tables Each element had many presentation attributes, resulting in laborious maintenance

The Slop Code Era

XHTML
XHTML is a version of HTML modified to conform to the XML standard Designed to separate content from presentation
Content in XHTML Presentation controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Extensible Additional elements can be defined XML Compatible Other XML based languages can be embedded in XHTML documents Like a programming language
Specific syntax to use Validators help you get it right

XHTML Differences
Case is significant All elements must have begin tags and end tags <p>Hello</p> Empty elements contain their own end tag <br /> Attribute values must be enclosed in quotation marks More specfics available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#diffs

A Simple XHTML File


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title> My Home Page </title> </head> <body> <h1>My Home Page </h1> <p> Welcome to my home page </p> </body> </html>

Hierarchical Structure

Well formed xhtml forms a hierarchy

Content Types

Documents are made up of logical types of content.

Semantic Structure

Content of the same type usually is formatted to look the same.

Semantic Markup

HTML markup is based on logical content types

Hierarchy

The resulting hierarchy

The DOCTYPE Statement


Declares the specific version of HTML or XHTML being used on the page Used by the browser to decide how to process the page Three types
Transitional - Forgiving Strict Requires adherence to standards Frameset Use if page has frames

Always first in file

Strict DOCTYPE
Enter exactly as below
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> Using Strict encourages standards based coding
Validators will flag logical errors in your methods Your CSS will work better and more predictably

Elements
Consist of three parts
Begin tag, which can contain attributes Contents End tag

Example: <p id=intro>Welcome</p> W3schools specifications for <p> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_p.asp

Attributes
Always only used in the element begin tag Three types
Optional attributes: Varies with element type Standard attributes: id, class, title, style, dir, lang, xml:lang Event attributes: onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup
Used in scripting

Empty Elements
Some elements have no content and therefore also have no end tag
<img src=photo.jpg /> <br /> <hr /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=main.css" />

In XHTML, which requires end tags on all elements, a single tag represents both the begin and end tag

<h1>, <h2>, <h3>, etc.


Headings on the page Represent the main topic, subtopics, subsubtopics, etc. of the page Important to use they in a logical manner, which greatly helps assistive technology like voice browsers present the page content intelligibly

<p>
Paragraph Important for presentation control to put text in an element. When in doubt, put text in a paragraph Blockquotes (<blockquote>) except they have wider left and right margins

Lists
Unordered lists (bulleted lists) <ul> <li>One</li> <li>Two</li> </ul> Ordered lists (numbered lists) <ol> <li>One</li> <li>Two</li> </ol>

Text Markup
Bolding
<b>text</b> <strong>text</strong>

Italics
<i>text</i> <em>text</em>

Other
<sub>text</sub> subscript <sup>text</sup> superscript <del>text</del> deleted text

Tables
<table border cellspacing="5" cellpadding="10"> <caption>People on the team</caption> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Position</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Mary</td> <td>Analyst</td> </tr> <tr> <td>John</td> <td>Technician</td> </tr> </table>

Graphics
Graphics are placed by using an img element The alt attribute provides alternative text describing the graphic in case the graphic itself cannot be shown or the user cannot see the graphic <img src="picture.gif" alt="Suzzallo">

Anchors
Anchors can link your page to any file on the Web

<a href="http://www.washington.edu/"> University of Washington </a>

Divs
Divs enclose a set of elements
<div style=text-align: center;> <h2> News</h2> <p><a href=budget.html>Budget</a></p> <p><a href=invest.html>Investment</a></p> </div>

Spans
Spans enclose objects (text, graphics) within an element
<p>Call me Ishmael. Some years ago <span style=font-style: italic;>never mind how long precisely</span> having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore,

Cascading Style Sheets


Are used to control how elements are presented in the Web page Use a different syntax that HTML/XHTML Work with the common visual browsers (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera) Used properly, can great simplify visual design, site management and content maintenance

A Style
Selector ropPerty p { font-family: Value times; }

Note the punctuation: The property is followed by a colon (:) and the value is followed by a semicolon(;)

Using CSS

Styles can be set in a stylesheet, in a style element in the head or in a style attribute

Selectors
Simple selectors p { color: blue } h1, h2, h3, h4 { font-style: italic; } Contextual selectors ul li { font-weight: bold; } #main img { border: solid black 5px; } p.intro { font-family: verdana, sans-serif;}

The Box Model

Each element has padding, border, and margin

Vertical Margins

The larger of the two vertical margins will determine the distance between elements

Visual Formatting Model

Pages are built as a series of blocks stacked from the top down

Controlling Layout
Styles can control size and placement of elements Example: #nav { width: 12em; float: left; } #news { width: 12em; float: right; } #main { margin: 1em 13em 1em 13em;

Nav Div Float Left

Nav Div Float Right

Nav Across Top

Items in the Nav bar are anchors within a div

HTML-Kit

HTML-Kit (Windows) is free editor that makes it easy to make standards compliant XHTML

HTML-Kit Has Tidy

Press F9 and your XHTML is validated and tidied for easy reading

Resources
HTML-Kit editor http://chami.com/ Amaya editor http://www.w3c.org/Amaya W3schools XHTML and CSS tutorials http://www.w3schools.com/ Web Head Start tutorials http://www.webheadstart.org/ Tidy Web Interface - http://www.washington.edu/webinfo/tidy.cgi CSS Validator - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Dave Raggett XHTML and CSS tutorials http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Overview.html Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM) - http://www.webaim.org/ Color contrast analyzer http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=628 Stylin With CSS, A Designers Guide, Second Edition by Charles Wyke-Smith

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