xHTML question

I made a simple test page in notepad with regular html and uploaded the file to my site, test.xhtml

When I went to visit the link it prompted me to download the file and would not display it. Any idea what is causing this?? Does the host need to install something? What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance!

 

xhtml is a successor to html, you want to use ".html" as your extension.

 

so you cannot name files .xhtml? If not, what exactly is the purpose of xhtml? Does it not display in IE, only firefox?

Just kind of curious as to why .xhtml does not load in IE..is it supposed to? Thanks

 

in a nutshell : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML

 

Your webserver is not configured for .xhtml processing.
You need to add type (for Apache), for example:

AddType text/html .xhtml

Code (markup):

 

thanks for the link KaniGT5. This is great for reading up and understanding more about xhtml but does not answer my question which is basically, I make a file..using this code for instance:

I have uploaded it to my site, and went to that page mysite.com/test.xhtml

when I get to that page using IE6, I am prompted to download the file, rather than display it..When visiting the site in FireFox, it displays fine..

Any idea why it does that? Any idea how to get around that or fix that? is it even possible?

Thanks in advance

 

Thanks for that info. Exactly what I was looking for..I will have the host check apache cuz it is a linux box

 

*sigh*... That's not the reason, whether you use XHTML or HTML for the website, you must use the extension .html or .htm
The difference is, XHTML is more strict, and neater than HTML, also the tags are different and many other things.
HTML: <br> XHTML: <br /> (closes it self)

HTML: <p>text<p>more text (P's not closed)
XHTML: <p>text</p><p>more text</p> (P's are closed)

HTML: <img src="whatever.gif"> XHTML: <img src="whatever.gif" alt="whatever" /> (closes it self, plus requires a alt attribute)