[Breaker3D]

I'm new to this whole scene and wondered if anyone could help with quite a few errors I now have in my code. Thanks

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ww...Inline&group=0

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by Breaker3D

I'm new to this whole scene and wondered if anyone could help with quite a few errors I now have in my code. Thanks

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ww...Inline&group=0

All this means is that the attributes you are using do not exist in XHTML (Strict).

For instance if you said:

<img roadsurface="asphalt" />

in HTML then the element img does not define an attribute roadsurface.


In general, you need a copy of the XHTML strict spec, which you can get from http://www.w3.org/ and then just keep to it! If you want to be lax, don't use the strict version. Use transitional instead. If that doesn't solve the problem, you are using tags and attributes that have been invented by morons at Microsoft or the former Netscape, which only work in their own browsers. An example is

<font>

, which appears in no standard for anything! use

style="..."

instead or a stylesheet and a class.

As for the rest, tags must be nested correctly, so

<a><b> <c/><b><a>

is ok, but

<a><b><c></a></d></b>

is certainly not!

[Breaker3D]

Right then, still a bit confused. There's something wrong with it because it's not displaying correctly in dreamweaver, which is making it quite hard to edit my site. I get this error on screen which says: </div> invalid markup. Thanks for the help.

[spot]

I can get it clean.

I changed the header to html4.01 transitional

I replaced all the space slash > with >

I removed all the </input>

There's two <form statements, I took out the GET

There's two </form>s and I took out the first of them

I dropped a border="0" from alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online."

The edited validated version is at http://cb6.dyndns.org/techportal.html but I'm not suggesting you use it, just that it's clean so you can compare it back. I've no dea whether it works the way you intend it to.

[Breaker3D]

Wow that's great. Works superbly, not getting any errors in dreamweaver, looks very clean. Think I will most definately use this. Thanks alot for the help :)

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by Breaker3D

Wow that's great. Works superbly, not getting any errors in dreamweaver, looks very clean. Think I will most definately use this. Thanks alot for the help :)

Don't feel too confident though, as Dreamweaver sometimes introduces errors like this into the html!

[spot]

I just went to download Dreamweaver since it's cropped up twice this week. It costs $400 to register an online copy! What on earth is it, the world's first Artificial Intelligence? It's an odd thing to buy, it strikes me. It sits between the user and his website and mediates what the user wants to achieve, to the extent that one has to learn the Dreamweaver package in order to generate a website. I'd have thought it would be both easier and more satisfying to learn the component web languages.

I'm sure I've got the wrong end of the stick, if someone can explain why Dreamweaver is a benefit I'd be grateful. I'm sure it's faster to implement a website than writing a one from scratch but nobody ever does that whatever approach they take to building one, everybody re-uses existing code. I used to get annoyed at Frontpage too. I even met someone once who saved some pages from Word as HTML and then asked me how to add things to it!

[Breaker3D]

Well in my case dreamweaver is good because I just wanted a simple site which I could upload easily but the software provided by the host was terrible and didn't work at all.

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by spot

I just went to download Dreamweaver since it's cropped up twice this week. It costs $400 to register an online copy! What on earth is it, the world's first Artificial Intelligence? It's an odd thing to buy, it strikes me. It sits between the user and his website and mediates what the user wants to achieve, to the extent that one has to learn the Dreamweaver package in order to generate a website. I'd have thought it would be both easier and more satisfying to learn the component web languages.

I'm sure I've got the wrong end of the stick, if someone can explain why Dreamweaver is a benefit I'd be grateful. I'm sure it's faster to implement a website than writing a one from scratch but nobody ever does that whatever approach they take to building one, everybody re-uses existing code. I used to get annoyed at Frontpage too. I even met someone once who saved some pages from Word as HTML and then asked me how to add things to it!

Spot is spot on! If you want to use a gui rather than a text editor, download KompoZer.

Don't expect standards-compliant code from commercial packages. HTML-tidy is worth investigating.