Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

XHTML Compliance

A powerful and welcomed feature introduced as part of the SharePoint 2010 editing experience is the ability to convert text to XHTML, which effectively means that SharePoint attempts to clean content and make it more cross-browser and device compatible. Figure 5.52 shows the convert to XHTML option, available from the ribbon’s HTML drop-down command.

Figure 5.52 The Edit HTML Source and Convert to XHTML commands.

Converting to XHTML is also another way to restyle pasted Word content to conform to styles already on the page. For instance, in Figure 5.53, I pasted some content directly from a Word 2010 document. The font and formatting ...