Datasheet

Validate the

Web Page

reamweaver provides a validation feature that

checks the syntax of your code. The HTML syntax

is validated based on the DTD you selected for

your document. For example, if you chose XHTML 1.0

transitional for your DTD, the syntax is checked using that

standard.

If you create your Web pages using Dreamweaver’s WYSIWYG

editor, Dreamweaver builds your source code and seldom

makes syntax errors. However, if you edit the code yourself,

or if you copied some Web page files into your Local site

from a Web site that already exists, you need to validate the

pages to be sure the syntax is correct.

Dreamweaver displays the results of your validation in the

bottom pane of your window in the Results panel. (Chapter

2 provides more details on using panels.) Each error is listed

in a separate row, showing the line number in your source

code that produced the error. An icon at the beginning of

the line indicates the type of error.

The Web page, created earlier in this chapter, displaying the

text “This is my first Dreamweaver page,” and saved with

the name FirstPage.html, is created by Dreamweaver and

has no syntax errors. To show how the Validator works,

the

</head> tag and the </html> tag were removed

from the source code.

Validate Current Document

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1 Click the Validate button ( ).

2 Click Validate Current Document.

Validate the Web Page

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Validation results appear at the bottom in

the Results panel.

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