Main differences between XHTML and HTML

Hi I'm barely starting to learn XHTML I pretty good at HTML and intermediate in CSS, so is there like a lot of differences between XHTML and HTML? Will it be hard to transition from coding HTML and coding XHTML? Also any beginners guides out there.

I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

Your best bet is to check out the w3schools site, it took me less than 10 minutes to learn from there. I already knew html as well.

Good luck!

The main difference is that XHTML is actually an XML application, meaning that you can embed other XML applications (such as SVG etc) inside of your XHTML document. Don't think about doing cool stuff like that in IE though, it doesn't support SVG, or even XHTML.

Syntactically (spell checker says that's a word :O) it's not much different from HTML. Just make sure you've included your DOCTYPE, your documents are well formed and any style related attributes are in CSS. (no <div height="42"></div> for example)

If your going to make the jump to xhtml, which you should. Here are some tips.

Elements must be lower case, no <A> must be <a>
Single tag elements, input, br, hr, meta, link, must be self closed, ie: <br />
All elements must be closed, with an end tag, or self closed