diff --git a/templates/web/index-nobanner.tt2.html b/templates/web/index-nobanner.tt2.html
index 8006d7fcb907d843355de8efce05eae435c396e1..5f3f8eabfbafc16b41d4edd666d9e67a1d874ac1 100644
--- a/templates/web/index-nobanner.tt2.html
+++ b/templates/web/index-nobanner.tt2.html
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/x
-html1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<DOCTYPE! html>
 
 [% IF errors %]
 <div class="ui-widget">
diff --git a/templates/web/index.tt2.html b/templates/web/index.tt2.html
index 2bc228f9d4126de5d03476abbf42d67ff82de233..2345b18cd28865408bb78e3da52d128ab0b4ffbe 100644
--- a/templates/web/index.tt2.html
+++ b/templates/web/index.tt2.html
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/x
-html1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xml:lang="[% iso639 = locale.match('^(.)(.)'); iso639.0; iso639.1 %]" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+<DOCTYPE! html>
+<html lang="en">
 
     <head>
         <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />