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  1. 20 April 2009, 01:55 PM #1
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    Default "meta" tags and XHTML validation issue

    I was playing with defining <head> values, and inserted the following meta tags into my index.htm page:

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    <meta name="author" content="A Great Guy"/>
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright 2009, Great Guys, inc., all rights reserved"/>
    The page validated just fine at validator.w3.org.

    Cool, sez I, so I then played with the "copy to all pages" feature and added the header box to the whole site. Problem is, while those meta tags worked fine on the index page, the validator is reporting them as errors everywhere else.

    I've tried searching the w3 pages and googling, but I don't see anywhere that says those meta tags are restricted to just the home page. What gives?
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  2. 20 April 2009, 03:18 PM #2
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    Default Re: "meta" tags and XHTML validation issue

    Never mind, I found the culprit. When I was first playing with the <head> naming convention I had an HTML placeholder named incorrectly, and forgot to delete it. The W3C errors are from the extra set of meta tags that are in the wrong place, not from the properly-placed ones.

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  3. 20 April 2009, 08:18 PM #3
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    Default Re: "meta" tags and XHTML validation issue

    Huh. To my credit, I didn't forget to delete the old placeholder boxes. XWD just behaves very oddly when you make copies of the placeholder. Just putting some closure on this, and starting a new thread because the problem is a completely different one than this thread title suggests.

    New thread:
    http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=37980
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  4. 25 April 2009, 04:35 AM #4
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    Default Re: "meta" tags and XHTML validation issue

    haha - lesson one I learned when first starting on computers.........it is ALWAYS the operator.
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