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.