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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research in October 1994. [4] It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science with support from the European Commission, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had pioneered the ARPANET, the most ...
The Markup Validation Service is a validator by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that allows Internet users to check pre-HTML5 HTML and XHTML documents for well-formed markup against a document type definition (DTD). Markup validation is an important step towards ensuring the technical quality of web pages.
This section gives examples of diagnostics generated by the markup validation service, and suggests possible fixes. Diagnostics are by line and column of the generated HTML for the page. It may be helpful to obtain the HTML in order to understand the diagnostic. For example, if you using the Firefox browser, you can type control-U to see the HTML.
HTML documents imply a structure of nested HTML elements. These are indicated in the document by HTML tags, enclosed in angle brackets thus: < p >. [73] [better source needed] In the simple, general case, the extent of an element is indicated by a pair of tags: a "start tag" < p > and "end tag" </ p >. The text content of the element, if any ...
This template creates a page link to the W3C Markup Validation Service. Note that pages will always be validated against the default skin, which is now Vector. Syntax is: {{W3C validation|pagename}} For example, to validate this page:
The W3C developed a comprehensive test suite to achieve broad interoperability for the full specification by 2014, which was the target date for recommendation. [26] In January 2011, the WHATWG renamed its "HTML5" specification HTML Living Standard. The W3C nevertheless continued its project to release HTML5. [27]
Template documentation This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse , meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar , or table with the collapsible attribute ), it is hidden apart from its title bar; if not, it is fully visible.
From January 2000 until HTML 5 was released, all W3C Recommendations for HTML have been based on XML, using the abbreviation XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language). The language specification requires that XHTML Web documents be well-formed XML documents. This allows for more rigorous and robust documents, by avoiding many syntax errors ...