Comments on: Is my HyperText Markup Language (HTML) correct? http://bodylanguagevideos.com/videos-read-body-language/is-my-hypertext-markup-language-html-correct.htm bodylanguagevideos.com Wed, 12 May 2010 13:07:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: NeoArcane http://bodylanguagevideos.com/videos-read-body-language/is-my-hypertext-markup-language-html-correct.htm/comment-page-1#comment-852 NeoArcane Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:14:59 +0000 http://bodylanguagevideos.com/videos-read-body-language/is-my-hypertext-markup-language-html-correct.htm#comment-852 you don't have to have a Doctype, but you can almost always use: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> However, you do have 2 errors in your HTML... at the "start" and "stop" EDITING HERE comments, neither comment has the "comment end" indicator ('-->') so, change both (I'm showing the change to start here..) <!--START EDITING HERE> to <!--START EDITING HERE>--> Other than that, I put it on my webserver, and it came right up.<br><b>References : </b><br> you don’t have to have a Doctype, but you can almost always use:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

However, you do have 2 errors in your HTML… at the "start" and "stop" EDITING HERE comments, neither comment has the "comment end" indicator (‘–>’)

so, change both (I’m showing the change to start here..)
<!–START EDITING HERE>
to
<!–START EDITING HERE>–>

Other than that, I put it on my webserver, and it came right up.
References :

]]> By: David D http://bodylanguagevideos.com/videos-read-body-language/is-my-hypertext-markup-language-html-correct.htm/comment-page-1#comment-851 David D Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:40:59 +0000 http://bodylanguagevideos.com/videos-read-body-language/is-my-hypertext-markup-language-html-correct.htm#comment-851 Missing doctype. Uses deprecated bgcolor attribute instead of CSS. Uses deprecated font element instead of CSS Uses deprecated center element instead of CSS Uses br element instead of margin Uses br element instead of block elements Fails to use h1/h2/h3/etc for headings Uses a table to describe an unordered list of data Fails to terminate the copyright entity with a semi colon New documents should generally use HTML 4.01 Strict. If there is one Doctype you should not use, it is <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> — since this triggers Quirks mode in browsers, making them make deliberate errors and be inconsistent (in an effort to deal with 1997-era code). http://opera.com/wsc/ has a decent tutorial.<br><b>References : </b><br> Missing doctype.
Uses deprecated bgcolor attribute instead of CSS.
Uses deprecated font element instead of CSS
Uses deprecated center element instead of CSS
Uses br element instead of margin
Uses br element instead of block elements
Fails to use h1/h2/h3/etc for headings
Uses a table to describe an unordered list of data
Fails to terminate the copyright entity with a semi colon

New documents should generally use HTML 4.01 Strict.

If there is one Doctype you should not use, it is <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> — since this triggers Quirks mode in browsers, making them make deliberate errors and be inconsistent (in an effort to deal with 1997-era code).

http://opera.com/wsc/ has a decent tutorial.
References :

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