Problem with xhtml validator

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Problem with xhtml validator

RammsteinNicCage

9:58 pm on Jan 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

I have a page with a xhtml 1.0 strict doctype. When I validate it through the W3dev Menu in Opera, I get this error: "I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the valid sources for such information." When I manually put the link into the validator or copy and paste the code into it, it works. When I validate a page through the menu that I did not make today, it works perfectly, which makes me think it really isn't a problem with the menu. My doctype declaration is exactly the same as on my other pages. Any ideas?

Jennifer

iamlost

3:00 am on Jan 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

This is from w3c answering another person with same problem:

This is telling you that your server is not sending out information about what character encoding is in use for the page. More information about character encodings and web pages is available at
<http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset>
(a future version of the Validator will provide that link in the error message).

Hope this helps?

RammsteinNicCage

6:34 am on Jan 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

But why would it only do it for the pages I made today and not for all of the other ones?

Jennifer

bofe

6:54 am on Jan 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

Character encoding isn't the same thing as Doctype.

Make sure your Metadata in this file is the same as all of your other files.

Depending on your language, your <HTML> tag and a meta tag may look like this:

That should validate.

RammsteinNicCage

3:17 pm on Jan 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

argh, I did mistakenly delete the meta tag. *stupid, stupid, stupid* ;)

Jennifer

photon

3:35 pm on Jan 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

Don't feel bad Jennifer. I did the exact same thing this morning. Took me forever to figure it out.

D'oh!

RammsteinNicCage

4:05 pm on Jan 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

*feeling better* :)

Jennifer

g1smd

9:18 pm on Jan 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

The order of the tags isn't too important, but I would do something like this (encoding first, SE stuff next, styles and javascript last):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<title> The Title of the Page </title>
<meta name="Description" content=" Description Goes Here ">
<meta name="Keywords" content=" Keyword List Goes Here ">

<script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></script>

</head>

<body>

The Generator, Date, and Author information isn't important for search engines, but can be useful for document version control when multiple people edit the pages, especially for companies.

The encoding information ought to go first, I guess, as I have heard that there are some issues with browsers designed for the far-East in that the page <title> at the top of the browser window may not display correctly if it is located before the encoding information for the page in the coding.

grahamstewart

12:24 am on Jan 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

Wow! So many meta-tags. Does anything actually ever look at tags like Author or Date?

For comparison here is my standard head (using HTML4.01 Strict)..

[pre]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Blah blah blah</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
    <meta name="keywords" content="blah blah">
    <meta name="description" content="blah.com specialise in selling blah">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="/styles/default.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/styles/print.css">
</head>
[/pre]

On larger sites I also throw in

<link rel="home¦contents¦prev¦next

etc as a special treat to those using more capable browsers :)