View Full Version : W3C Validator Help?


illmatic
02-18-2007, 07:30 PM
Okay, so I'm still trying to deal with this Firefox issue. Someone said when they tried to validate my whole site, they retrieved this error:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fu-chain.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&outline=1&No200=1&verbose=1


But that is like trying to decipher Chinese for me so could someone please explain what they mean by uft-8 coding or what steps I can take to correct the problem? Thanks in advance!

Zohar Amihud
02-22-2007, 07:53 PM
This web page show you some errors that were found in you page. Mainly, you forgot to close some tags. The validator is checking your code to see if it was written by the standard. The standard is HTML 4.01 which is NOT the last one. You should check your page with XHTML standard and then you will see that you have 117 errors and not 20!
Also, you have some empty tags, like: <div></div> You can delete them.

bourdelson
02-22-2007, 11:51 PM
UTF-8 is Unicode, or a worldwide accepted character coding set. All you have to do for that is put the specification in between your head tags-- right now, you're using Western Europe encoding.

HTML 4.01 is still perfectly acceptable to code in, although XHTML promotes better coding practices.

Also, if you're having problems with the same issue, please try to keep it contained to the same thread. It's easier to keep things organized. :)