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XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) version 1.0 is one of the first markup languages defined using XML. A World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): A consortium of commercial and educational institutions that oversees research and promotes standards in all areas related to the World Wide Web.) standard, XHTML extends HTML 4, providing more interoperability for Web documents. For instance, XHTML documents can use scripts that rely on either the HTML or the XML document object models.

While FrontPage 2003 currently has no specific XHTML features, it does support XHTML. The default values set in FrontPage 2003 are the correct ones for working with XHTML. However, if you have customized them in any way, you should change them so that they conform to the XHTML standards.

To ensure the values are set correctly, on the Tools menu, click Page Options, and then click the Code Formatting tab. XHTML requires that you create all tags and attributes by using lowercase characters. Therefore, you should ensure that the following check boxes are selected:

• Tag names are lowercase
• Attribute names are lowercase

Also on the Code Formatting tab, ensure that the Omit end tags check box is deselected because end tags are required.

Now that you have configured the settings, you are ready to code in FrontPage 2003 with XHTML!

For more information about XHTML, see the direct link to the W3C site located in the See Also list.