diff --git a/conntrackt/templates/conntrackt/base.html b/conntrackt/templates/conntrackt/base.html
--- a/conntrackt/templates/conntrackt/base.html
+++ b/conntrackt/templates/conntrackt/base.html
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 {% load conntrackt_tags %}
 
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE html>
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>
     <title>{% block title %}Conntrackt{% endblock %}</title>
-    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
-    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
+    <meta charset="utf-8" />
     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" />
     <style>
     body {
       padding-top: 60px; /* 60px to make the container go all the way to the bottom of the topbar */
     }
     </style>
-    <link href="/static/bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet">
-    <link href="/static/custom.css" rel="stylesheet">
+    <link href="/static/bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet" />
+    <link href="/static/custom.css" rel="stylesheet" />
     <script>
     /* Set-up the base URL for sending out AJAX API calls. */
     var conntrackt_api_url = location.protocol + "//" + location.hostname + ":" + location.port + {% url "index" %} + "api";
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
                 <form action="{% url "search" %}" class="navbar-search pull-left" method="GET">
                   <div class="input-prepend">
                     <button type="submit" class="btn btn-link"><span class="icon-search icon-white"></span></button>
-                    <input id="search" class="search-query" type="text" autocomplete="off" name="q"  placeholder="Search">
+                    <input id="search" class="search-query" type="text" autocomplete="off" name="q"  placeholder="Search" />
                     <div id="search-suggestions" class="dropdown">
                       <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                       </ul>
