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Best Practice N°12- LevelLevel 1- Section code
Description
The source code of all the pages contains a document type declaration (doctype) which conforms to the syntax defined by the W3C.
Objectives
Allow for correct interpretation of the pages by providing the user agents with the standard in use.
Possible technical solutions:
Use one of the document type declarations provided in the List of valid DTDs you can use in your document published by the W3C QA
Control methods:
Check that the doctype used in the one that returns the fewest errors (or ideally none) when submitted to a validator
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