Forum Moderators: phranque
I have a few questions.
Q.1. I'm changing a site to xhtml. Do i need to use the extension .xhtml in the files or can i just leave the files with the extension .html in order for the
pages to validate?
Ex. abc.xhtml
or abc.html
>Can i just leave it as .html and will it validate?
Q.2. I tried to validate a page by file upload from my pc. The *W3C validator* said that their was no character encoding found.
>I then used the:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
and the page then validated for xhtml.
Q. Is the <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
the correct one to use on the pages?
>I'm in the United States. Webpage language is English language.
>*W3C validator site has the above meta with numbers
as a recommendation if someone does not know which character encodeing to use.(western)
Q.3. Do i need to place the:
<meta http equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
on the webpage or will the *webserver* *automatically* have it listed with the correct
character encoding?
Q.4. The pages were said to tentatively Validate as xhtml 1.0. and that there was no character encoding found. Also it did *not* display any errors.
Q. Will the correct encoding fix this problem and validate the pages when placed on the internet?
>They do validate once the:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
is placed in the header.
*Please answer each question.
Thank you very much everybody:)
frenzy77
Q.1. Do i need to use the extension .xhtml in the files?
Q.2. character encoding
Q.3. Do i need to place the:
<meta http equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
on the webpage or will the *webserver* *automatically* have it listed?
Q.4. Will the correct encoding fix this problem
Thanks for the help:)
I have a few other questions. I hope you don't mind
answering.
Do i need to include the xml declaration?
For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="EUC-JP"?>
*Not this one. Just an example.
Or should i *not* include the xml declaration since i read that it may not render the document as expected.
Can i just use the:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1 transitional.dtd">
Q.2. Also you mentioned including the <!DOCTYPE html...xhtml 1.0...Transitional....>
in the header if i was'nt comfortable using
the server....
Q. If i it was done on the server, would i need to place it myself? In a file or directory?
Or would the host do this automatically on the server?
*just curious.
Thanks again for your help:)
I appreciate it.
frenzy77
Do i need to include the xml declaration?
Q. If i it was done on the server, would i need to place it myself?
