Justin Malone
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No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
http://validator.w3.org came back and told me that i have no character encoding on my web page. how do i fix this useing Dreamweaver MX?
this is the help information at w3.org
The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.
One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>").
this is the help information at w3.org
The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.
One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>").
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Also please send the line of code reported as trouble making by the validator, here to me, if the above instructions didn't help you.
Huji
Huji
Sorry huji. Yours was not there yet when I posted.
Cd&
Cd&
No problem Cd&. And another thing, this is my opinion: Dreamweaver is not that bad. Of course Hard Coding may be a good option for people who are accustomed with it, but not for every body; and on the other hand, one can generate codes made by Dreamweaver, which follow HTML 4.0 transitional standards and pass the W3C validation tests.
Need an example? I made http://ssrc.tums.ac.ir all in Dw. and it passes that validation thing. (The only thing that does not pass is the CSS validation test, becuase I decided to use some scroll bar effects, which are not in CSS standards.)
Huji
Need an example? I made http://ssrc.tums.ac.ir all in Dw. and it passes that validation thing. (The only thing that does not pass is the CSS validation test, becuase I decided to use some scroll bar effects, which are not in CSS standards.)
Huji
Ooops that does not look quite right.
squallkill99,
Are you sure you accept th ecomment you intended to. I think what I supplied duplicated huji, and when two experts give the same information, the question should be awarded to the first one who posted it.
If you made a mistake I can correct it for you.
Cd&
squallkill99,
Are you sure you accept th ecomment you intended to. I think what I supplied duplicated huji, and when two experts give the same information, the question should be awarded to the first one who posted it.
If you made a mistake I can correct it for you.
Cd&
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yea i acadentley accepted the wrong one
this was the first question i had ever posted here
and to tell you the truth i used the first one more than the second.
if there is a way to fix it i will do so
this was the first question i had ever posted here
and to tell you the truth i used the first one more than the second.
if there is a way to fix it i will do so
For the encoding you are probably missing:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
In the head.
There is no point to trying to go beyond that code generates produce a certain amount of non-standard garbage. If you want to produce code that will validate. Get rid of the toys and use a text editor to write the code yourself.
Cd&