What on earth is wrong with this?

**whym** · 09-06-2007, 09:02 AM

I'm trying to write a blog post on how to write a valid XHTML document, and I can't even seem to do it myself! It's disastrous!

Here's the code - the W3C validator is saying there are problem but I can't see any

Quote:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3c.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3c.org/1999/xhtml”>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="utf-8" />
<head>
<title>Daniel Price’s ornithology encyclopedia</title>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”Bird watching, ornithology, wildlife” />
<meta name=”description” content=”A small encyclopedia about the sport of bird watching and how to identify common birds" />
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://danlprice.co.uk/style.css” type=”text/css” />
</head>

<body>
<p>This is some writing. Content can be placed in this tag. Now I will close the tag. </p>
</body>
</html>

Anyone help ASAP?

**whym** · 09-06-2007, 09:05 AM

By the way, the address of this is www.danlprice.co.uk/example.html and I've made a blank CSS file on www.danlprice.co.uk/style.css. These are both just for example purposes - the main site is working fine on Wordpress

**maxxximus** · 09-06-2007, 10:10 AM

Your quotation marks were causing problems - this validates fine.

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Daniel Price’s ornithology encyclopedia</title> <meta name="keywords" content="Bird watching, ornithology, wildlife" /> <meta name="description" content="A small encyclopedia about the sport of bird watching and how to identify common birds" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://danlprice.co.uk/style.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <p>This is some writing. Content can be placed in this tag. Now I will close the tag. </p> </body> </html>

**whym** · 09-06-2007, 10:16 AM

Thanks very much Rob. That's great