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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.

Create XHTML-compliant documents

  1. Select File > New.
  2. Select a category and type of page to create.
  3. Select one of the XHTML document type definitions (DTD) from the DocType pop‑up menu on the far right of the dialog box, and click Create.

    For example, you can make an HTML document XHTML-compliant by selecting XHTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Strict from the pop‑up menu.

    Note: Not all document types can be made XHTML-compliant.

Create XHTML-compliant documents by default

  1. Select Edit > Preferences or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Mac OS X), and select the New Document category.
  2. Select a default document and select one of the XHTML document type definitions from the Default Document Type (DTD) pop‑up menu, and click OK.

    For example, you can make an HTML document XHTML-compliant by selecting XHTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Strict from the pop‑up menu.

Make an existing HTML document XHTML-compliant

  1. Open a document, and do one of the following:

    • For a document without frames, select File > Convert, and then select one of the XHTML document type definitions.

      For example, you can make an HTML document XHTML-compliant by selecting XHTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Strict from the pop‑up menu.

    • For a document with frames, select a frame and select File > Convert, and then select one of the XHTML document type definitions.

  2. 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.