Proper Doctype Code and Extra HTML Tag on Page

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Proper Doctype Code and Extra HTML Tag on Page

frenzy77

1:18 pm on Jul 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hi guys:)

Need some help please.
Well, when i add the doc type to a site,

Q1. do i need to also add an *Extra* <html> tag after the
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> part?

Like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Or do i Not add that Extra <html> tag in?

I ask because i'm not sure if we are supposed to enter it in *Also* or if the first one covers the start of the html for the content of the webpage. I want to be sure the page displays correctly:)

Q2. Is it ok to leave the Extra <html> tag In as it is shown above and will it be ok?

Thanks guys for the help:)
frenzy

encyclo

4:43 pm on Jul 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

You just need one

html

opening tag, not two. The page will almost certainly display with two tags, but it will be invalid HTML.

swa66

11:14 pm on Jul 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

Considering you're using xhtml, I'd strongly suggest to make 100% to only have valid xml.

So, you need to loose the <html> and keep the html element with the xml namespace attribute.

[validator.w3.org...] usually will help you with these although its errors aren't always as easy to understand as they could be.