Tentatively Valid

[Cronthenoob]

I tried validating one of my pages and this came uphttp://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%...x.htm;ss=1;sp=1what does that mean? And how do i make it Valid??

[Jack McKalling]

It means the validation succeeded experimentally. This is because the character encoding was missing, the validator guessed what it should have been. Put in a character encoding, and it would pass validation :)Just like in a meta tag:<meta name="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

[justsomeguy]

I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. I'm falling back to the "UTF-8" encoding and will attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents. Read the FAQ entry on character encoding for more details and pointers on how to fix this problem with your document.

There's a link on the page to the FAQ referenced.

[aleksanteri]

Yes, simply it means that the character encoding was not found.

[Cronthenoob]

Thanks guys. That was giving me such a huge headache and now i feel stupid.

[Jack McKalling]

Don't be, its everyones first time when they start