The importance of clean, well-structured XHTML

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You’ve seen the horrors before. You were browsing a site that had a really cool design, and you view-sourced it to learn about their underlying code.

But… it… was… a… disaster!!!

You cringe as you look at the code within the newly opened window. You look away, then back again. You can’t help it as you sit there staring incredulously. It’s like gawking at a car accident as you drive by. Nobody can resist doing that.

Are there any unclosed tags? Do they still use… *gasp* …tables?! Does the page even validate at all?

Coding nightmares like these often incur headaches of equivalent magnitude to one caused by a room full of screaming and crying five-year-olds.

All of that could be avoided altogether if everybody wrote clean, consistent, valid and standards compliant XHTML code. Unfortunately, that’s about as likely as pigs flying out of my ass while smoking a joint and singing Oops, I Did It Again.

Close your tags, use an efficient structure, convert to a tableless and CSS-based layout, and the world will become a little better. And you just might save several thousand coders from premature deaths attributed to stress and brain tumors (all caused by the headaches).

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