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stickyboy
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Posted: 2005-Oct-09 22:16
Went to validate my site using the W3C Markup Validation Service but it comes up with No DOCTYPE found! Attempting validation with HTML 4.01 Transitional.
I created this site in Dreamweaver 2 (a long time ago!) so how do I know what is the correct DOCTYPE?
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lizardz
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
# Posts: 1394
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Posted: 2005-Oct-10 00:20
If you created it with dreamweaver 2, it's going to have too many errors to really use a doctype, but my guess is that HTML 3.02 or whatever would be the right one, maybe 4.01 transitional, hard to say without seeing the code. Probably 3.02 though.
Code like that probably isn't worth worrying about too much though, just look at it in Opera, IE 5x and 6, and Firefox, and if it displays ok, don't worry about it. Unless you want to learn how to create valid HTML, with CSS etc. But if it works ok, I'd leave it, unless you want to get into a full rewrite.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2005-Oct-10 01:42
It probably writes HTML 3.2 which is not feature rich.
I would stick the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE in and then manually edit the code to reduce the errors to zero, or near zero:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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