looking at the XHTML i wrote in MS Word I see many strange characters I didn't write as part of the code.?

Question

I am trying to learn webpage writing. i wrote some example code using MS word. When I view the code as a webpage there are a bunch of characters before and after the body that I didn't write.

How do I avoid this.

It also happened when I wrote the code in 'textedit'. But different strange characters appeared.

Answer 1

DO NOT paste the code into programs like Microsoft Word or Microsoft Works. Make sure you paste it into a PLAIN TEXT editor so the symbols are not altered in any way.
(example: like notepad)

when you use programs like microsoft word it will normal do that because it isn't a plain text editor.

Answer 2

Write code in Windows notepad. Microsoft Word adds tons of junk to the code. Dreamweaver has a clean up word html function, if you have dreamweaver.

Answer 3

You would be better of using Notepad than Word.

Switch to either of these and start form scratch (do not bring in your existing stuff):

Html-kit http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Both are free. Html-kit is text-friendly and can do anything. Amaya is strong on xhtml and is a wysiwyg editor.

Answer 4

maybe you didnt tag things correctly, go over your code and make sure there are no errors.

Answer 5

Those things r our own bill gates recidues

Answer 6

e.g. http://www.geocities.com/darwin916/XML.htm

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