26010 2014-06-07 16:39:40 +0000 HTML 4.01 validator dos not recognize as valid a page with nothing in the body 2015-08-23 07:21:17 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator check HEAD PC Windows XP RESOLVED WONTFIX P2 normal --- 1 aldemarcalazans dave.null mike www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 107470 0 aldemarcalazans 2014-06-07 16:39:40 +0000 If you upload the following (and correct) template to the validator, it will give you an error: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>A 4.01 Strict standard template</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> </body> </html> The problem does not occur if you "fill" it with anything, for instance, an empty paragraph, as follows: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>A 4.01 Strict standard template</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> <p></p> </body> </html> 122723 1 mike 2015-08-23 07:21:17 +0000 HTML4 didn't allow the body element to be empty. Regardless, current document should just use <!DOCTYPE html>