Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 - Manual (Page 462)

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2. In the W3C Validation panel, click the W3C Validation (Play) icon. Select Settings.
3. Select a DOCTYPE for validation if a DOCTYPE has not been explicitly specified for the document.
4. If you do not want errors and warnings displayed, clear the options.
5. Click Manage if you want to delete any warnings or errors that you have hidden using the W3C Validation panel. When you remove
warnings and errors, they are not displayed when you select Show All in the W3C validation panel.
6. Select Don't Show W3C Validator Notification Dialog if you do not want the W3C Validator Notification dialog displayed when you begin
validation.
Working with validation reports
After validation is complete, the validation reports are displayed in the W3C Validation panel.
For more information on the error or warning, select the error/warning in the W3C Validation panel. Click More Info.
To save the report as an XML file, click Save Report.
To view the entire report in HTML, click Browse Report. The HTML report provides the complete list of errors and warnings along with a
summary.
To jump to the location in the code containing the error, select the error in the W3C Validation panel. Click the Options button, and select Go
to Line.
To hide errors/warnings, select the error/warning. Click the Options button, and select Hide Error.
To view all the errors and warnings, including the hidden errors, click the Options button. Select Show All. Any hidden errors and warnings
you deleted in the Preferences dialog are not listed.
To clear all the results in the W3C validation panel, click the Options button. Select Clear Results.
Set Validator preferences
The Validate tags feature has been deprecated as of Dreamweaver CS5. However, Dreamweaver still supports external code validators that you
install as extensions. When you install an external validator extension, Dreamweaver lists its preferences in the Validator category of the
Preferences dialog box.
1. Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).
2. Select Validator from the Category list on the left.
3. Select tag libraries to validate against.
You can’t select multiple versions of the same tag library or language; for example, if you select HTML 4.0, you can’t also select HTML 3.2
or HTML 2.0. Select the earliest version you want to validate against; for example, if a document contains valid HTML 2.0 code, it will also
be valid HTML 4.0 code.
4. Click Options, and set options for those libraries.
5. Select Display options for the types of errors and warnings that you want the Validator report to include.
6. Select items the Validator should check for:
Quotes In Text Indicates that Dreamweaver should warn you about each use of quotation marks in the text of the document; you should
use the " entity instead of quotation marks in the text of HTML documents.
Entities In Text Indicates that Dreamweaver should recommend changing certain characters (such as ampersand (&), less-than (<), and
greater-than (>)) to their HTML entity equivalents.
7. Click OK to close the Validator Options dialog box, and click OK again to set the preferences.
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.
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