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Posted by The Magician on 11/09/80 11:17
In article <Xns9667802727163arbpenyahoocom@207.115.63.158>, arbpen2003@sbcglobal.net says...
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed The Magician
> <vanished@thedropofahat.com> writing in
> news:MPG.1d06704cb7d7c94c98982b@news.optonline.net:
>
> > In article <d7hev5$4tp$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk>, dorward@yahoo.com
> > says...
> >> The Magician wrote:
> >>
> >
> > Hmmm...oh well, guess it'll have to stay as is. But that HTML validator
> > thingy said something about not being some kind of "doc type". How do I
> > fix that in Dreamweaver?
>
> Go into Code View (or whatever it's called) and add a DocType declaration.
>
> <snip>
> > None of the stuff on the validator made any sense to me really, except
> for I
> > get a sense that the webpage needed some kind of html "dogtag" stating
> > it's a "regulation webpage that's had it's shots" or something similar
> > to that.
>
> No, validation is not the beat all to end all, it's a tool to help you in
> your authoring. If some element is misbehaving, validating the page will
> often show the culprit, an example is a floating DIV that's not floating
> because the prior div is not closed.
>
> Yet I view it fine in my IE6 browser. So what's the big
> > deal...? It won't be viewable in a browser like...Mozilla or something?
>
> IE is not the only browser available. Who knows, maybe at the last minute,
> MS will make IE7 more like its younger siblings (I doubt it), and then it
> won't show correctly in IE7 either.
>
> > Trust me...the target audience won' be using Mozilla, etc.
>
> Firefox is gaining on IE rapidly, mostly because of security issues, and
> because IE just doesn't do some of the things the younger browsers do, like
> tabbed browsing.
>
> > I'm not really a code geek, and I use an html editor. But since that
> > page was a downloaded prefab, webpage template... how would I go about
> > adding the tags needed to make the pages "on the up & up"...?
>
> You need to start fixing the errors the validator points out one by one.
> Then, when it is no longer throwing errors, start working on the template.
>
> Thanks
> > again David. I do appreciate your help.
Thanks Adrienne.
But my problem is...I went on that validator page, looked up the different types of "doctype declarations", and couldn't figure out which one fit.
I dunno html 2.0 from 3.2 or 4.01...or xtml, or sooperdooper html, etc., etc., etc... LOL!
So...couldn't figure out which tag to copy & paste.
So you kinda see what type of novice I am.
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