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HTML5 Checklist

General

• The document validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
• Code is cascaded for easy viewing
• The Document weight is not greater than 32 KiloBites (KB).
  (You can view the document weight under the Tools menu. )
• All tags are written in lowercase. Ex. <h1>, not <H1>.
• All Attributes are written in lowercase and attribute values are written in lower case. Ex. <table class="table">
• All tags must be closed, including empty elements, (start tag must end with />).
• Filenames are in lowercase and do not contain spaces.

Headings and Titles

• Every page has an <h1>.
• Headings and Table Headings are in Title Case.
• Never skip heading levels.
• Each page has a title, <title></title>. In most cases, the title is the same as the <h1>.
• An appropriate Heading tag has been inserted for each new section of the file.

Tables

• All Tables inside a Div container (<div class="table-responsive"></div>)
• All Table tags have a bootstrap table class (class="table table-bordered table-striped")
• Tables that contain a Header, Body, and/or Footer should use the <thead>, <tbody>, and/or <tfoot>
• In a single table, every table row <tr> has the same number of Table Data's <td>.

Special Characters - use character entity values

• All quotes ( " and &#34; ) are replaced with &quot;
• All ampersands ( & and &#38; ) are replaced with &amp;
• All dollar signs ( $ and &#36; ) are replaced with &dollar;
• All percent signs ( % and &#37; ) are replaced with &percnt;
• All number signs ( # and &#35; ) are replaced with &num;
• All non-breaking spaces ( &#160; ) are replaced with &nbsp;
• All section symbols ( § and &#167; ) are replaced with &sect;
  more special characters

Deprecated Tags and Attributes

• Do not use these deprecated tags and attributes
• In particular look for the tags <font>, <center>, <frame>, <dir>
• And the attributes scope, bgcolor, align, valign and nowrap

Last Updated: March 14, 2018