DocType Validation Error

Report · Aug 23, 2025

Hello
Here is my template page:

https://meherbabalibrary.org/pages/radiohour-1969.html

The pages I plan to create will be with text (word documents), insert of PDF document,
Insert of MP4 videos and insert of photographs. Nothing complicated. I do not want to change the appearance, the visual of this template.

What I did was run validation. One error was located on this template page. It is Doctype.

Do I ignore the error or is it bes to change the text string. I page shows it is HTML 5

Once I fix this error below I will then use a CSS link to begin to develop the pages.

Error:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Traditional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-Traditional.dtd">

Thanks

Report · Aug 23, 2025

When you create a new HTML document in Dreamweaver, it will automatically show the HTML5 doctype:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

But to be more precise, the minimal requirement for modern HTML documents is:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

As a side note, do you realise that there is a missing <script> tag missing from the JavaScript starting on line 105?

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Report · Aug 24, 2025

Hello

Just now read 'As a side note, do you realise that there is a missing <script> tag missing from the JavaScript starting on line 105?

I don't understand.

Line 105 shows:

function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0

Report · Aug 24, 2025

Which version of Dreamweaver are you using? I ask because this code is outdated.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Traditional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-Traditional.dtd">

If you're using an outdated Template, you're setting yourself up for more failure later.

CODE TUTORIALS:

- https://www.w3schools.com/html/
- https://www.w3schools.com/css/
- https://www.w3schools.com/js/
- https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · Aug 24, 2025

Dreamweaver 21.4

Report · Aug 24, 2025

The following JavaScript snippet is incomplete due to a missing opening <script> tag:

function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}
</script>

To ensure proper HTML validation and functionality, the code block must begin with a <script> tag to match the closing </script> tag. Here's the corrected version:

<script>
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}
</script>

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Report · Aug 24, 2025

Thank you for this observation.

The correction is now applied.

DocType Validation Error

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