Using HTML Code Editor, and Website Projects, I have created a website consisting of six html documents.
I used "New From Layout" documents as a starting point for each of the html documents, which all started out being:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
I'm not what I may have done, or how they got this way; but now four of the html documents show a doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
And two of the html documents now show:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
1.Does it matter that pages within a website have both html 4.01 and xhtml 1.0 documents?
2. Why should, and why shouldn't, I use Tools/Code Cleaner/Clean & Convert to CSS?
The documents look fine in (HTML Editor) Preview, but the Code Editor shows they have a bunch of seemingly unnecessary </FONT> tags. When I "Clean & Convert to CSS" lots of things change and the Preview doesn't look fine.
Attached are examples of one of the XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" & HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" documents.
Clean & Convert to CSS - Post ID 104902
David Eastland
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Jo Rice
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Hiya David,
If you have your site pages uploaded a link would be helpful, if not then I think you forgot to attach the files you were planning to attach
If you have your site pages uploaded a link would be helpful, if not then I think you forgot to attach the files you were planning to attach
Cary
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David Eastland wrote:
1.Does it matter that pages within a website have both html 4.01 and xhtml 1.0 documents?
1.Does it matter that pages within a website have both html 4.01 and xhtml 1.0 documents?
It doesn't matter.
David Eastland wrote:
2. Why should, and why shouldn't, I use Tools/Code Cleaner/Clean & Convert to CSS?
...When I "Clean & Convert to CSS" lots of things change and the Preview doesn't look fine.
2. Why should, and why shouldn't, I use Tools/Code Cleaner/Clean & Convert to CSS?
...When I "Clean & Convert to CSS" lots of things change and the Preview doesn't look fine.
If it's messing things up, then you shouldn't use it.
David Eastland
Registered User
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Well, I figured out the culprit re. the two types of doctype's; it was me.
I still have the question about CSS though:
Why should, and why shouldn't, I use Tools/Code Cleaner/Clean & Convert to CSS?
My website pages look OK in Preview, and testing with a Default Browser (haven't uploaded tomy Browser yet).
Using "Clean & Convert to CSS" changes the Doctype from "Transitional" to "Strict"; and brings up a whole different array of (W3 Validation)errors.
I still have the question about CSS though:
Why should, and why shouldn't, I use Tools/Code Cleaner/Clean & Convert to CSS?
My website pages look OK in Preview, and testing with a Default Browser (haven't uploaded tomy Browser yet).
Using "Clean & Convert to CSS" changes the Doctype from "Transitional" to "Strict"; and brings up a whole different array of (W3 Validation)errors.
Cary
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If a website is older and uses font tags for styling text, "Convert to CSS" will remove the font tags and replace them with spans with styling that produces the same look. It also converts inline styling to embedded styling.
So, it might help if you are trying to bring an old website up to present standards.
So, it might help if you are trying to bring an old website up to present standards.
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