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"I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is impossible to validate the document. "
As the first line of the page, I have
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
The page is located at:
www.RaymondHome.com
Thanks,
Larry
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
I designed the site with Coffee Cup, which doesn't
automatically insert the code you mentioned.
How do I learn where to get the code, for example, could I just use the code you cited?
Thanks,
Larry12468
additional information can be found here:
which content type/charset to use [webmasterworld.com]
<meta http.....charset=us-ascii"> - Is this the best charset to use? [webmasterworld.com]
the code cited is a meta-tag placed into the head section of your website (below the title tag for example). edit the source of your page in coffeecup, then you can copy and paste it in.
If you are only using HTML (not XHTML code), then take that final / out. The first / after <head> is interpreted as being </head><body> which then leads to cascading errors for all of the meta tags and for the real </head> and <body> tags.
See also: [webmasterworld.com...]
People are still using plain vanilla HTML? ;)
Thanks for pointing that out though, I can see people using the XHTML version and getting validation errors. I just haven't used HTML in so long that I forget about the difference in closing tags.
