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XHTML and Dreamweaver

Trying to code in XHTML with Macromedia's Dreamweaver was tough simply because the version I use (ver. 4.01) does not support coding my web pages in XHTML.

Anyway, I already had experience modifying Dreamweaver's default.html one time before when I started to use CSS to format my web pages, so that helped me solve quickly the first problem I faced with making my new, re-designed pages comply with the XHTML standards.

Adding a DOCTYPE declaration

Everytime you click on File > New Window in Dreamweaver, you will probably get something like this:

code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
 charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

To change that, open the following file in NotePad:
path: C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver\Configuration\Templates\Default.html

and edit it, inserting something like this:

code:

<!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">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Untitled Document</TITLE>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=" />

</HEAD>

<BODY>

</BODY>
</HTML>

In case you missed it, note that I added that space and slash at the end of this line:

code:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=" />

Save the file.

From now on, whenever you start Dreamweaver and open a NEW WINDOW in the program, you'll have the correct DOCTYPE declaration already inserted for you on every web page you create!

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