An essential introduction to developing your own dynamic interactive web sites with XHTML, (the new flexible XML based markup language that is replacing HTML as the language used for designing web sites).

1. Why Do I Need XHTML?.- Why switch to XHTML?.- What do I need?.- Is this book for you?.- How to use this book.- Don't type!.- 2. XML And XHTML.- HTML versions.- What is XML?.- What is XHTML?.- What is JavaScript?.- Getting started.- 3. Creating XHTML Documents.- Starting an XHTML document.- The html element.- White space.- The head element.- The title element.- The meta element.- The base element.- The body element.- Validating the document.- The p element.- Other paragraph types.- 4. Formatting Documents.- Headings.- Line breaks.- Inserting lines.- Colours and Fonts.- Lists.- 5. Creating Links.- What is a URL?.- The a element.- Absolute and relative URLs.- Links within a document.- Email links.- 6. Creating And Using Tables.- Creating tables.- Formatting tables.- Formatting cells.- Grouping table elements.- Style sheets.- 7. Working With Images.- Image Formats.- Which format should I use?.- Minimizing file size.- Displaying images.- Linking from an image.- Image maps.- Client and Server side maps.- 8. Cascading Style Sheets.- Types of style sheets.- Embedding a style sheet.- Linking to a style sheet.- In-line formatting.- Classes and IDs.- Creating a style sheet.- Changing the background.- Conflicting properties.- 9. Creating And Using Frames.- Types of frames.- Creating fixed frames.- Controlling frame size.- Creating more complex framesets.- Preventing frame resizing.- Formatting.- Navigation.- Browsers which do not support frames.- Legal problems.- In-line frames.- 10. CREATING FORMS.- Creating and using forms.- The form element.- What is sent to the server?.- Controls.- The input element.- The button element.- The textarea element.- List controls.- Grouping controls.- Disabling controls.- The PC buyer document.- Processing forms.- 11. Javascript and XHTML.-Java and JavaScript.- Using Java applets.- Using JavaScript.- The CDATA Section.- JavaScript data types.- Identifiers.- Numbers.- Arithmetic operators.- Shortcut operators.- Strings.- Booleans.- Functions.- write and writeln.- Scope of variables.- Declaring variables.- What's next?.- 12. THe Javascript Language.- JavaScript errors.- Formatting JavaScript code.- Comments.- Case sensitivity.- Compound Statements.- The ifstatement.- The comparison operators.- The logical operators.- The switch construct.- Looping.- for..in and with statements.- Labels.- The break statement.- The continue statement.- 13. Javascript Core Objects.- The navigator object.- Important JavaScript objects.- 14. Handling Events.- The mouse events.- The keyboard events.- The document and window events.- The form events.- The focus events.- 15. Deprecated and Valid Elements.- Deprecated elements.- Current XHTML elements.- 16. INDEX.