Hi all,
I've got about 200 or so images on my website which I've just noticed dreamweaver hasn't closed. Is this going to be an issue?
It means it won't be XHTML compliant (I think) but does it really matter? If I have to I will but just trying to save myself a tedious task
Cheers
Dan
Hi Dan,
I am not sure how many pages your site has, but i found this in google which is a way to use find and replace in dreamweaver to close of image tags.
Closing Empty Tags That Have Attributes :: Lesson 2. Upgrading to XHTML :: Dreamweaver MX. Dynamic applications :: Macromedia :: eTutorials.org
Bulk find and replaces scare me
Closing an img tag with /> is indeed an xhtml thing, you could go brave and just change the doctype over to html(5) and side-step the whole issue - <!DOCTYPE html>
Probably not the greatest suggestion in the world I know
Thanks for the replies chaps,
If the pictures show up ok though, is there any need for me to do anything? Will there come a time when the W3C say 'xhtml only please'
That dreamweaver jobby looks good thanks. I don't need to worry about screwing anything up, because I use joomla I just copy and paste the code from joomla and paste it in dreamweaver, make the change, test it, if all is ok just past it back into joomla.
If I don't have to do it though, I wont
WIth html5 around the corner I'd say not. They'll be plenty of room for both me thinks. I'm far to happ with xhtml syntax to change now, which is why the html5 spec looks good - as you can choose (as it stands anyway)Originally Posted by Netting87
I would imagine around 80% of the web sites out there won't be closing their image tags as they won't be using XHTML, then it's unlikely to cause any errors anytime soon (pure guess on numbers).
As for the W3C - most likely, then everyone with any impact (ie: Microsoft) will ignore them for 10 years until IE finally gets around to thinking that maybe it ought to catch up...then they'll find it's another 50 years before most web sites are compatible by which time we'll be implanting the entire thing into our brains and thus not needing all these browser thingies.
Essentially as long as your doc-tag doesn't say the page is XHTML strict then the browser shouldn't give two-hoots about it. And if it does say that you'll have so many horrible complications trying to get everything to work that well by now you'd be in a psych hospital repeating "nursie...the WC3 say the pink elephant isn't validating" over and over...
Or in English - don't stress, no one else does.
Trev
Netting87 (09-10-09)
Lmao thanks Trev, question answered
Closing of img tags is in XHTML. Same for meta, link tags etc. Don't close them HTML as it won't validate.
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Agreed, although I believe you're able to in html5 (providing the spec remains as is)
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