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Valid HTML Markup

Just a random question for my friends on here who know web programming. If I want to submit a blog article to a website and I am required to submit it with “valid HTML-markup” – what does that mean? Any clues?

Thanks. :-)

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3 Responses to “Valid HTML Markup”

  1. spyscribbler Says:
    July 18, 2008 at 6:15 am

    I don’t know. Maybe with the paragraph tags and such?

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  2. SilenceIsFoo Says:
    July 18, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    I believe it has to do with making sure the editors of the site don’t have to do anything special to make your article work with their site. Your best bet is to make sure it’s W3C compliant. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sets standards that many (but not all) website designers try to follow. A W3C compliant page is much more likely to produce the same experience no matter which web browser is being used to view it.

    If you use links and images in your article, make sure to use standard HTML tags and not tags you might use in a web forum.

    You can validate your HTML with the W3C Markup Validation Service here:

    http://validator.w3.org/

    Make sure the website doesn’t have its own specialized requirements listed somewhere on the site. However, if your article passes the W3C test, it will likely be suitable for the website to which you submit it.

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  3. kevintracy Says:
    July 19, 2008 at 9:54 am

    It just means make sure it works.

    I’m assuming you’re just submitting a simple text post with maybe a few photos. It’s nothing you have to worry about. There are some really backwards ways of writing HTML, but you can’t really mess up the IMG tag too badly.

    If you are doing more advanced stuff, the W3 validator might be worth the time. Otherwise, just do your thing.

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