haven't change it? I wrote a new XHTML strict document and went to validate it and got heaps of strange errors i never normally get such as no encoding and no doctype declaration which are clearly there and identical to other documents i have validated. it also says it checked it as transitional when i wrote it in strict. So I went back to check about 15 of my other pages i have written and validated ages ago. they now won't validate and get the same errors when i haven't changed them since they passed. Also if I validate through direct imput mode it validates with only one warning? any ideas thanks a lot. =)