HTML Standards for webpage (W3C).

Here are some tips which must follow while developing a webpage(s). This is not only improving your proper coding standards but also improve page performance too.

Self-closing tags – All html tags used in page must be closed as, with  and
 with
.

Close all tags – Tags like 

 and

 should be completed with
 and 

.

Quote attributes – The use of quotes i.e.  id= “myControlID” instead of id= myControlID.

Consistent case – All HTML code should be of the same Case, for instance  tag should be . This makes XHTML validation easier if all the code is lowercase. This can be set as an option in Visual Studio HTML editor.

Use entities – Reserved characters are converted to their special sequences (as per W3C) for instance:

< will be <

> will be >

& will be &

‘ will be '

“ will be "

Page Title: Do not left page title blank.

ALT and Title Tag: Image Alternate text and Title for Image Alternate Text or for anchor. Alt and Title should not leave blank.

Included Script: Script type and script language should be mentioned while including JavaScript in your html page.

External CSS: try to use external css file over Internal Style or Style for particular controls.