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**nerbonne** · 11-27-2006, 03:00 AM

Does anyone know a resource that shows all the code every html or php file should have? I see alot of recommendations in the forum, such as the no odp tag, and here is what I gather so far. Please let me know if I missed anything.

Code:

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

<html dir="ltr">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" Content="en-US">

<meta name="generator" content="Dreamweaver 8" />
 
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords here" />

<meta name="description" content="description here" />
 
<meta name="robots" content="NOODP">
 
</head>
 
<body bgcolor="ffffff">
 
</body>
 
</html>

So far I've set the document type, the direction of the text, the content type, the language, the generator, the keywords, the description and the no odp tag. Is there anything else that should be in most html documents?

**LadynRed** · 11-27-2006, 12:13 PM

The Generator is unnecessary.
Which meta tags you put into your HTML files is completely up to you, I don't think you can say there are any 'standards' that every file MUST have, except maybe the Language, content and keywords, even though keywords are not as important as they once were. The "noodp" seems to have mixed results with some people seeing their sites drop on Google.

This: body bgcolor="ffffff" should in no way be a 'standard' tag. All presentational elements like this should be in a CSS file. In addition, the proper notation is #ffffff.

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