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USING DREAMWEAVER

Working with page code

Last updated 3/28/2012

• To view the entire report in HTML, click Browse Report. The HTML report provides the complete list of errors and

warnings along with a summary.

• To jump to the location in the code containing the error, select the error in the W3C Validation panel. Click the

Options button, and select Go to Line.

• To hide errors/warnings, select the error/warning. Click the Options button, and select Hide Error.

• To view all the errors and warnings, including the hidden errors, click the Options button. Select Show All. Any

hidden errors and warnings you deleted in the Preferences dialog are not listed.

• To clear all the results in the W3C validation panel, click the Options button. Select Clear Results.

Set Validator preferences

The Validate tags feature has been deprecated as of Dreamweaver CS5. However, Dreamweaver still supports external

code validators that you install as extensions. When you install an external validator extension, Dreamweaver lists its

preferences in the Validator category of the Preferences dialog box.

1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).

2 Select Validator from the Category list on the left.

3 Select tag libraries to validate against.

You can’t select multiple versions of the same tag library or language; for example, if you select HTML 4.0, you can’t

also select HTML 3.2 or HTML

2.0. Select the earliest version you want to validate against; for example, if a document

contains valid HTML 2.0 code, it will also be valid HTML 4.0 code.

4 Click Options, and set options for those libraries.

5 Select Display options for the types of errors and warnings that you want the Validator report to include.

6 Select items the Validator should check for:

Quotes In Text Indicates that Dreamweaver should warn you about each use of quotation marks in the text of the

document; you should use the " entity instead of quotation marks in the text of HTML documents.

Entities In Text Indicates that Dreamweaver should recommend changing certain characters (such as ampersand (&),

less-than (<), and greater-than (>)) to their HTML entity equivalents.

7 Click OK to close the Validator Options dialog box, and click OK again to set the preferences.

Make pages XHTML-compliant

When you create a page, you can make it XHTML-compliant. You can also make an existing HTML document

XHTML-compliant.