htmlnewbie23

Thanks.

How do I determine the correct doctype to enter for this file since I did not code it and it did not come with a doctype?

 

(Doesn't content='text/html serve as a doctype replacement?)

Sorry for the very basic question.

I have a test page that does not have a doctype tag but instead has

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'>.

 

I attached the file.

 

The W3 validator does not like it because of the absence of a doctype tag.

 

Can't <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=UTF-8'> replace the doctype? Why not?

 

If not, I do not know what doctype to put there because the code was automatically generated by the widely popular page:

http://stevemorse.org/create/create.htmltest.html

Thank you.

More than likely you will need to change it manually. The preferred character encoding is utf-8.

Is it enough to change the meta line stating the encoding in the html code or does something else need to happen?

I have a series of html files that I created long ago using ISO-8859-1. I need to change them to UTF-8 character encoding. I have 2 questions:1. How do I do that? 2. The files include the meta line that statescharset=ISO-8859-1 Does this need to be changed manually or will it automatically be changed to UTF-8? (I currently use the Arachnophilia html editor). Thank you.