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4. Click HTML Page, change the name to index.html, and then click Add.
Depending on the version of Visual Studio you’re using, you might see a basic HTML page that
uses an XHTML document type similar to that in Figure 1-7. Some versions of Visual Studio use
an HTML5 doctype as you’ve seen throughout the chapter, so your screen might look different
than this.
FIGURE 1-7 A beginning page with Visual Studio 11.
5. If your version of Visual Studio has the XHTML doctype as shown, the first thing you need
to do is switch the DOCTYPE for the page. If your doctype is already the HTML5 doctype
(), there’s nothing to change and you can skip this step. If you need to
change it, highlight the entire DOCTYPE declaration in Visual Studio and delete it. Replace
that long (and ugly) DTD with the following:
6. Within the declaration, remove the xmlns namespace attribute. This applies only if it’s
present. Some versions of Visual Studio don’t have this attribute present. If it’s not there in
yours, you don’t need to change it.
Regardless of the version of Visual Studio you have, you need to change the tag so
that it contains the words Start Here. With those three changes (which you can find in the
companion content as index.html), the page should look like this:
Start Here
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