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I need a doctype and charset to use the validator

which ones should I use?

         

marty

12:27 am on Apr 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

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ok 3 months ago I started learning how to write HTML i may be over my head now. My roomates and I needed a website <we are starving artist as you might say> so we learn and that's what i have been doing. Unable to find reliable individuals who would work for free i took on the task of learning a new languge. if you could check out what I have done at

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I do not understand why foxfire and safari are not posting the borders around the menu on the left and why there are no line breaks where there should be.

i also need help advice on how to determine a Doctype and charset i don't really get it and I cannot validate it with wc3 because of this hump.

I hope nobody feels this is a "review my site" style post. I just joined today and did read about that being a nono, it almost kept me from posting but i figured what can it hurt.

thank you <for any help> in advance
this suff ain't easy
Marty

[edited by: tedster at 1:29 am (utc) on April 8, 2005]

tomda

12:57 am on Apr 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Welcome to Welmasterworld

Add this in the <header> of html your page.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15'>

Regarding the other problems you mentionned, I strongly advice you to validate your page using W3C, as you were planning to. It seems there are many HTML errors in your page. Keep learning and good chance.

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Robin_reala

11:05 am on Apr 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Tomda: he'd probably want a full doctype to avoid quirks mode issues. I'd suggest: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

marty

8:40 pm on Apr 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

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ok now tha I got most of it i am having issues with mailto refs i cannot get subjects in with the &20%

and what do I do about colspans they are the only things between me and validity.

marty

 

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