Making Pages Xhtml-Compliant - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-USING DREAMWEAVER Use Manual

Making pages XHTML-compliant

When you create a new page, you can make it XHTML-compliant. You can also make an existing
HTML document XHTML-compliant.
To create a new, XHTML-compliant document:
Select File > New.
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The New Document dialog box appears.
Select a document type.
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Select the Make Document XHTML Compliant option.
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Note: Not all document types can be made XHTML-compliant.
Click OK.
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To create XHTML-compliant documents by default:
Select Edit > Preferences or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Mac OS X) and select the New
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Document category.
In the New Document category, select a document type and select the Make Document
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XHTML Compliant option.
Click OK.
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To make an existing HTML document XHTML-compliant:
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Open a document, then do one of the following:
For a document without frames, select File > Convert > XHTML.
For a document with frames, select a frame and select File > Convert > XHTML. To
convert the whole document, repeat this step for every frame and the frameset document.
Note: You can't convert an instance of a template, because it must be in the same language as the
template on which it's based. For example, a document based on an XHTML template will always be
in XHTML, and a document based on a non-XHTML-compliant HTML template will always be
HTML and can't be converted to XHTML or any other language.
Related topics
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"About the XHTML code generated by Dreamweaver" on page 417
438 Chapter 21: Optimizing and Debugging Your Code