(X)HTML

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Contents 1 Articles on using XHTML 2 Articles on XHTML 3 Mark-up 3.1 Navigation 3.2 Forms 3.3 Pagination 3.4 Embedding content that needs a plugin 3.5 Mark-up for mobile devices 4 HTML email newsletters

Articles on using XHTML

• HTML redirect
• Accessible data tables
• Alt versus title attribute
• Why you should not use 'div' for everything!
• How to mark up addresses?
• Use javascript instead of the target attribute to open new windows. This way you can write valid HTML with a strict doctype and still open links, such as PDF and Word documents in new windows.

Articles on XHTML

• Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
• XHTML 1.0 Strict versus XHTML 1.1
• Doctype (a list apart)
• My web site is standard, and yours? by W3C
• See also in Accessibility
• HTML vs XHTML on standars compliant websites on 456bereastreet
• 37 FAQ's about HTML and perfect markup

Mark-up

• Guide to semantic mark-up with a list of how to use the HTML elements
• XHTML character entity references, hover over each entity to reveal the hex code, the unicode reference and the named entity reference

Navigation

• Accessible dynamic links talks about using javascript to bring in hidden links and hiding them. Thus when javascript is disabled, you don't get a long nested list of the link hierarchy.

Forms

• Making AJAX forms accessible talks about a technique to hide the submit button in a way that works.
• Table like layout without using tables use a fieldset for the row header and labels for column headers.
• Sensible forms: a usability checklist
• Accessible forms markup, a tutorial

Pagination

• Pagination 101. Not so much mark-up as usability, but still very useful with some good examples.

Embedding content that needs a plugin

• Embedding Quicktime and Windows Media Player (WMV) without using <embed>
• Another method to embed Quicktime in a standards compliant fashion

Mark-up for mobile devices

• Make your site mobile friendly
• Opera mini: a site which allows you to browse a site just as if you were doing it from a mobile device.

HTML email newsletters

• HTML email a tutorial on building them, and what content they should contain
• CSS support chart for HTML email, VERY useful
• An update to the CSS support chart
• The truth about Flash in email
• Various email newsletter designs
• HP email newsletter suggestions
• Gallery of effective newsletter designs
• Mailchimp inbox inspector, a tool to help you test your html email newsletters
• Mailchimp advise when designing newsletters