Validate XHTML of your blogs

If you have a blog at blogger, you could go to your source code and see these lines on the top of your blog source code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd” >

These lines indicate that your blog source code is written in strict XHTML (EXtensible HyperText Markup Language) according to W3C.org (The World Wide Web Consortium). XHTML stands for EXtensible HyperText Markup Language. XHTML is aimed to replace HTML. XHTML is a combination of HTML 4.01 and XML (EXtensible Markup Language). It is the standard of the web.

Those who can handle HTML can learn XHTML very easily. The advantage of XHTML is that it is compliant with any modern browser. A person who is accessing your blog through a mobile phone could read your blog only if it is compliant with XHTML. Or else he / she may not be able to access the contents of your blog / website.

To be on the safer side you can validate your blog using XHTML validator. This will make your blog viewable in any modern browser with ease. To show your readers that you have created an interoperable Web page, you can even display a button on your webpage.

I validated this blog and found that it had almost 57 errors. It will even have more errors in the archives section. But I corrected the syntax and other errors in the main page of this blog (last 7 posts). Currently I reduced the errors from 57 to 21.

In the future posts I plan to utilize the XHTML standards as it is beneficial in many ways. If you want to validate your blog according to W3.org you can visit The W3C Markup Validation Service Page. To learn basics of XHTML free of cost you may also visit W3Schools.com.

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September 3rd, 2005 in blogging