Re: Missing HTML5 Doctype Error

Anonymous · ‎07-30-2015

Hi,

I'm creating landing page templates and I keep getting this error. Does anyone know what this means?

Template validation failed because of these errors:

Missing HTML5 Doctype

Will_Etling · ‎02-08-2019

I was getting this error. Turns out I had a blank line as line 1 of the template. <!DOCTYPE html> *has* to be on line 1. Thought this may help others.

Dave_Roberts · ‎02-10-2019

I've seen this too Will, even when the doctype is declared on line two, if line one is blank it'll error out.

For what it's worth, I've seen this (and lots of other) little errors come as a result of copy/pasting for your favorite text-editing program (working offline) and have been able to reduce a bunch of these kinds of errors in my workflow by starting to work within the Marketo editor rather than the back-and-forth copy/paste process.

SanfordWhiteman · ‎02-10-2019

FWIW... it's not an error standards-wise. HTML5 explicitly allows whitespace or even whole comments before the doctype, but Marketo doesn't.

Justin_Cooperm2 · ‎07-30-2015

If you click "Create New Landing Page Template" it will automatically have the right DOCTYPE inserted for you...were you copy and pasting?

Justin

Kenny_Elkington · ‎07-30-2015

Hi Amanda,

You probably need to add this to the top of your template:

<!DOCTYPE html>

This line let's the browser know what HTML version is in use in the document.