marossity Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 I am rather new at this, and I have a question about checking my code to be sure it is correct.This is what I have been doing, and I would like to know if it is a good method or not.I started off by coding a rather large test page, using as many of the examples as possible. I did not copy and paste. I wrote each individual tag. I inserted a dtd as follows: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> Then I saved it as an .html file.I ran it and it appeared to be pretty good. I then changed the file to a .xhtml, and was shocked to find numerous error throughout the file. I individually corrected each error until I had a clean sheet.So, is this a proper way, or does anyone have a suggestion, comment, maybe a snorting chuckle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 The official http://validator.w3.org/ is the best way to check. Note that you will of course get a lot of errors if you try to pass off an XHTML document as a HTML document, or vice versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marossity Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Thanks for the reply, Synook...I understand that the link you gave is the way to validate the site.I haven't yet set up a web site so I thought the way I described in my first post might be a good way to check the page before "going on the air" with it.As I said, I am new to this, and I am not cool about putting some junk stuff up. I had intended to write everything on my cp, check it, and then hang it out there for all to see. If I seem to be heading down the wrong path, please let me know.Much obliged, for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 You can just copy all the code and paste it into the "Validate by Direct Input" form on the validator. That is the best way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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