Document validation with warning

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November 10, 2022
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Hello, I am attaching a sample screenshot of code inserted with Dreamweaver that is incorrect in the validation phase. Thanks Webmaster

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Review HTML5 syntax below.

https://www.w3schools.com/html/

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mne5E04Author

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Thank you. Webmaster

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

The first one is telling you you don't need a trailing / in a self closing tag. Items like <area> <img> or <link> don't get a closing slash like <link /> <br /> or <img /> under HTML 5. This usually happens when updating from (or while using) an old doctype declaration to HTML5 in DW. DW knows what doctype you're using and will write those in for older doctypes, but the validator validates against HTML5, so will show an error/warning. All you need to do is take them out...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Void_element

The second wants you to add a language attribute to your <html> tag, like <html lang="en"> if the page is in English...

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations

M

mne5E04Author

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Thank you. I was just wondering why Dreamweaver doesn't insert the correct code. Webmaster

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Dreamweaver is a tool. When used correctly it works as expected. Pasting bad code into any editor will produce mixed results usually resulting in errors.

Understanding proper code syntax is essential to get good results.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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