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HTML Validation by HTML Tidy and W3C Markup Validation Service?
My HTML got validated by HTML Tidy but not by W3C Markup Validation Service. It would be validated if I convert these symbols below into codes:
"
'
-
Shall I convert? Is it necessary? It would take a lot of time to convert them. (I use Notepad.)
The pages are in English. No other foreign languages. No embedded complicated stuff.
The doctype is
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd%22%3E
and I have this below in the head section:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
The webpages looked alright in major browsers in Windows. Not sure about Mac or others.
I wonder if it is worthy of the time to "correct" the errors in order to be validated by W3C.
Thanks in advance for your advice!
@Tyler: "misuse" ? For example.....?
I have sent you the link.
@Daddyjo: They are validated by HTML Tidy but not by W3C. I wonder what the difference would it mean. I did not understand the word SGML parser (or something) that was mentioned on the W3C site.
@Ron: I do have HTML Tidy. It is a firefox add-on. It is very good! I always use it to check my codes.
This morning I tried validation by 3 different methods listed on this page
Namely, by URI, by file upload, and by direct input.
The URI failed but the other two passed. The codes were basically the same. Now what does this imply................?
@Geoff: Yes?! Then please use less quotation marks, dashes, and colons in your original newsletters....!
KIDDING....!
(not).
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Quotes, apostrophe's, and dashes should all be valid codes. It's likely that they are being used incorrectly. Do you have a link to the page that is failing validation? If you'd prefer, you can message me the link and I can reply back to you there.
Source(s): Web Designer - Anonymous5 years ago
It validates the HTML page if the html tags,attributes and other characteristics are up-to-date. If you have not known before, their are many versions of html, and I think that the most recent today is xhtml. By validating the html pages,validators can see whether the pages' html properties are still suitable for what is allowed by the internet governing body W3C.
- 1 decade ago
It is not necessary to convert them at all. As long as your markup(html/css) code is valid then you are just fine.
Source(s): web developer / designer - Ron~NLv 51 decade ago
HTML Tidy is a tool of some sort that you can download and it cleans up web pages.
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