How important is Valid XHTML?

bdconnolly · Post by **bdconnolly** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:18 pm

Maybe a dumb question, but here'r goes: how important is that my set up is vaild XHTML. Ran http://validator.w3.org/ . Came back with 50 or so errors and various nits.

Does it really matter that I fix them? The site renders well on all platforms.

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- Brian

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:28 pm

Its a personal preference thing for most people. Professional bloggers, web designers and organisations will probably insist on valid xhtml because XHTML is the current standard and theoretically valid code should be guaranteed to display correctly in all browsers including those for people with disabilities or people using mobile devices.

If your blog visitors are not complaining, and everything is working the way you want it to, then the only reason you might have for validating you code is to learn more about XHTML/CSS

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:22 pm

Hi!

Also, full XHTML/HTML validation means that no spiders/bots will likely run into any trouble. Being validatable is just a predicate that tells you that your webpage is fully parseable by all standards-compliant bots.

If Googlebot were picky, he could discard your page, or rank it lower than validating pages.

Best regards,
Garvin