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Asked: 2026-05-25T23:12:44+00:00

I have the following code that’s giving me errors when being validated: <!DOCTYPE html

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I have the following code that’s giving me errors when being validated:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />

    <title>Welcome</title>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />  
    <meta name="description" content="something..." />
    <meta name="keywords" content="a,b,c,d" />

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  href="/style.css" />

</head>

Here is how it’s being parsed by the validator:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
<title>Welcome</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="something..." />
<meta name="keywords" content="a,b,c,d" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css" /style.css />
</head>

What makes the site add additional and unquoted “/style.css” into the tag? How can I avoid this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’ve probably added /style.css by accident (I cannot produce your result).

    Visit the validator at: http://validator.w3.org/#validate-by-input

    Copy-paste the contents of the code below:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />

    <title>Welcome</title>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><!-- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> -->  
    <meta name="description" content="something..." />
    <meta name="keywords" content="a,b,c,d" />

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  href="/style.css" />

</head>
<body></body></html>

    Result: The uploaded document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

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