Question

What is difference between HTML and XHTML?

Answer 1

HTML and XHTML has a few differences as below:

• HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language while XHTML stands for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
• The format of HTML is a document file format while for XHTML the file format is a markup file format
• In HTML it is not necessary to close tags in the same order as they were opened, but in XHTML it is necessary
• In XHTML, it is quite important to write doctype on the top of the file; while in HTML is it not needed
• The file name extension used in HTML are .html, .htm.; and the file name extension used in XHTML are .xhtml, .xht, .xml.