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yeahbutno
05-04-2005, 10:01 AM
I'm trying to validate my website written in HTML.
My DOCTYPE is as follows:-
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.e-b-s.co.uk/training/loose.dtd">
On validation I get the following results:- :confused:
ü/strong>?»¿<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
Any ideas please.
Thanks
scragar
05-04-2005, 10:03 AM
can you post a link? just copy it out of the URL bar(I son't think w3 let's you check local files...)
yeahbutno
05-04-2005, 10:40 AM
Here is the content that appears in the "HEAD" TAG
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Training</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="EBS Ltd, Electronic Business Systems Ltd">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="Training,classroom,one to one,sage,crm">
</HEAD>
Totally baffled on this one. :eek:
the tree
05-04-2005, 10:42 AM
An actual link would be a lot more helpful, it could be something server related.
scragar
05-04-2005, 10:47 AM
or it could just be your browser, or temporary error, or one of 100 things, especialy with the vauge way you've described the problem.
and what's wrong with other free validation services? If w3 goes crazy try a different one untill w3 act's normal.
yeahbutno
05-04-2005, 10:51 AM
Thanks for the advice "Scragar" & "Tree" I'll try one of the other validation services & see how I get on.
Start with a valid DTD, the case is important:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
yeahbutno
05-05-2005, 04:49 AM
OK, thanks FANG :)
yeahbutno
05-05-2005, 07:08 AM
Hi
I have saved my source code for the DOCTYPE validation problem in notepad as "ANSI" instead of UTF-8 which it was originally. This worked ok & the page now validates ok. Is this strictly correct.
Yes, but use a better editor, HTML-Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/) is very good and free!
yeahbutno
05-05-2005, 07:21 AM
Thanks for the advice Fang.