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 Mar 27 2008, 04:48 PM
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I sort of getting the finishing touches for my site and I put up my meta tags but one thing I see on sites that I dont understand is their doctypes?
Something that looks like this for example: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> That goes before the head. So what does that do and how do I pick which one I need? |
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Mar 27 2008, 04:52 PM
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 This bag is not a toy. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,090 Joined: Oct 2007 Member No: 583,108 |
From http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html :
QUOTE No DOCTYPE Declaration Found! A DOCTYPE Declaration is mandatory for most current markup languages and without one it is impossible to reliably validate a document. One should place a DOCTYPE declaration as the very first thing in an HTML document. For example, for a typical XHTML 1.0 document: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Title</title> </head> <body> <!-- ... body of document ... --> </body> </html> Also, Choosing a Doctype and a List of Recommended Doctypes. |
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