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Updating an Existing Page
  1. Start a new page <html><head></head><body></body></html>
    - - Copy and paste content from your current page to your new page between <body> tag and give it a temporary name
  2. Alternatively, replace the top lines after <head> of the current page with the 3 declarations. This is suggested if your current page is already using the Library Template
  3. Upload the file to the Infohound Website online HTML Tidy. This will perform an online conversion. Download the file, the default name is tidy.html
  4. After the conversion, do a final hand cleanup of anything the tool didn't fix alt="" for <img>. You may want to convert your <font> information over to a stylesheet
  5. Replace above <html><body> in step 1 with the following 3 declarations :
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd ">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
    </head>
    <body>
  6. Validate the page at W3C XHTML Validation , correct any possible errors.
  7. Your page should validate as XHTML compliant!


Validate an existing page
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What is XHTML?

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Using the Library Template

Updating Existing Page

How to Validate an Existing Page

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