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Posted by Demian Arend
Demian Arend
3,386 Points

<!DOCTYPE html> tag question

Hey everybody,

I built a simple website the other day just for practice. I started with just an <html> tag at the top of the document and when I finished I recalled the HTML 5 tag: <!DOCTYPE html>. I put that in saved it and lost much of the color in my site. When I removed the DOCTYPE tag and used just the <html> tag again the color returned. Why does this happen?

Thanks for any input,

Demian

1 Answer

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Sounds like you've got some invalid HTML, try running your markup through the W3C's HTML5 validator

Demian Arend
Demian Arend
3,386 Points

Thanks, James. I'll try that. Don't know why what I typed didn't fully print here. I was trying to say that initially I used a regular html tag and then ended up going back to it to get the colors back.

When you say invalid html you mean it's outdated, right?

Thanks,

Demian

Jonathan Rawlins
Jonathan Rawlins
13,998 Points

Not outdated, but invalid in the sense that the browser would be unable to render it because it doesn't understand it, this could purely be an incorrect tag used or anything such like.

Typical HTML 5 structure would be like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        Meta and stuff goes here
    </head>
    <body>
        Body content
    </body>
</html>