Order of statements

tshad · Mar 2, 2005

I just want to see if I have this in the correct order.

This is the way all my pages are set up.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN">

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Home Page</title>
<link href="../css/staffing.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>

Does it matter where the <link> or #include statements are?

I assume the #includes can go anywhere as they are preprocessed files that
become part of the html file.

Metas go in the head section.

I assume <script> goes anywhere also.

Thanks,

Tom

Mark Parnell · Mar 2, 2005

Previously in alt.html said:
Does it matter where the <link> or #include statements are?

I assume the #includes can go anywhere as they are preprocessed files that
become part of the html file.

....as long as the end result is still valid. In your example, that is
extremely unlikely, unless the include file is blank, or contains only
comments.

Metas go in the head section.
Yes.

I assume <script> goes anywhere also.

tshad · Mar 2, 2005

Mark Parnell said:
<link> has to be in the <head>.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-LINK

#include can be anywhere in the file as far as the server is concerned,
but...

...as long as the end result is still valid. In your example, that is
extremely unlikely, unless the include file is blank, or contains only
comments.

Actually, it contains javascript. So I suppose it is not valid (even though
it does work).

Thanks,

Tom

Toby Inkster · Mar 2, 2005

tshad said:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN">

<html>

You are unlikely to really want to put an include file there. (It is
possible if it only does some server side processing without printing out
any results.)

Assuming that the contents of this include file are to be displayed on
screen, put it in the BODY.

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