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imovecornwall

Good morning everyone. I am building a website for a charitable organisation, imove estate agents cornwall. I am a little bif of a newb and I understand that on this page:

http://www.imovecornwall.org/index.htm

I should have a DOCTYPE in the HTML. My question is, What DOCTYPE should I use?

Page has frames and a flash sldieshow.

Any assistance wuld be very much appreciated.

Kor

You may use either a HTML or an XHTML, depending how you have coded. As far as I can see, you have mixed up the HTML way of coding with XHTML way, which is not good. Make up your mind:

either you use an HTML Doctype and write the non-empty tags (link, img, meta, etc) in a HTML way: <link>, <img> <meta>, etc
or you use an XHTML Doctype and close the non-empty tags in an XHTML way: <link />, <img /> <meta/>, etc

But not both on the same document, as it is now in your site.

myself1

Whats the difference between html & xhtml ? Is it just the way tags are closed etc?

When should it be applied?

Kor

http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/htmlxhtml
It does not matter which one you use. HTML strict is as better as XHTML strict.