Hi there,
I have always used your validator to make sure that all the pages for
websites that I design are validated. I'm pretty familiar with it and
have never had any problems until now. The documents I have been
checking are not live websites but .html files that are on my PC that
will go live when they are finished.
Last night I had a document that came up with a warning and 3 errors -
about character encoding. This didn't make any sense to me as this is
something I do first with my documents along with declaring the doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
<title>My webpage</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=
iso-8859-1" />
<link href="w_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
I thought maybe there was a typo - so I went to check one of my
previous websites (that I know validated correctly in the past) but it
came up with the same error. After about an hour of trying to find out
how to fix it - suddenly all my documents validated again - with no
obvious change to the code.
This morning I validated again and I got the green light and all was
fine so I carried on with the rest of my code. I went to check the new
code that I had written and then again the same Character encoding
error, even though I had not changed any of the doctype/character
encoding code pasted above.
It is a very confusing and annoying situation, is there anyone that
can tell me why this is happening?
Regards,
Kelly Newell
