html character encoding

i have just ran a page through a html validator and it tells me there is no character encoding, what is this, and how do i define it?

thanks

 

Character encoding is something which must be declared at the start of any HTML page for it to be valid. Itis for the browsers.

An example would be this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Code (markup):

Wikipedia link: --> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding

 

It's this thing:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Code (markup):

But of course it can be iso-8859-1 or some other formats too. Generally it's utf-8 though.

 

I think UTF-8 is the best!

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

HTML:

 

thanks for that, now got my code validated.

now that my code has been validated, i have one more question (i don't want to start new threads unnecesserily, so i'll try it in here first).

is there anything i need to think about in relation to accessibility, is there a website which can check for accessibility issues, or give hints on how to make sites more accessible?

thanks

 

You should download FireFox and the web developer toolbar (google will find the download easily enough).

It has an option to quickly validate the HTML, CSS and Accessiblity of your website and that will tell you a lot. It's also got other useful features.