- From: Dean Edridge <dean@dean.kiwi>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 23:00:29 +1200
- To: Michael Warenycia <mwarenycia@digitalpath.net>, www-validator@w3.org
- Message-ID: <e3597ed3-1131-ec48-8280-98c289a21422@dean.kiwi>
Hi Michael, Please see my comments below your quote, inline. On 2018/09/06 12:30, Michael Warenycia wrote: > So, my initial HTML tag was: > > <!DOCTYPE html> > > The site issued a warning saying that I should declare the language in > the html tag, so then I submitted it with: > > <!DOCTYPE html lang="en"> Yes, like Steve said, that is the doctype, or the doctype declaration, not the html tag/element. The doctype just tells the browser to deal with the document in standards mode. Webpages will behave unexpectedly without a doctype, and of course, it is nonconforming. > > That threw a bogus doctype error and a quirky doctype error. So then I > submitted: > > <html lang="en"> > > and it threw back a warning saying it expected !DOCTYPE to be in > there. I can't do anything to make it happy :( > > > We always need to put in the <!DOCTYPE html> at the top of our documents when using the HTML parser. The HTML parser is recommend for most people to use, and is what most webpages use. The textarea at this URL will show you what a simple HTML document looks like: https://validator.w3.org/nu/#textarea You can have a go on that page and see what markup is valid. However, you may be interested in having a look around on the web and see if there is a tutorial on how to use HTML and CSS. Here's a good place to start: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web Hope that helps. -- Dean Edridge: https://dean.kiwi dean@dean.kiwi — @deanedridge
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