- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:06:19 +0100
- To: "SEAN MCDERMOTT" <mackviola@hotkey.net.au>
- Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On 10 May 2004, at 03:39, SEAN MCDERMOTT wrote:
> Coding from W3schools
Oh dear
> <table border="1" background="/images/bgdesert.jpg">
> <td background="/images/bgdesert.jpg"> Second</td>
>
> 1. Line 16, column 15: there is no attribute "background"
>
> <td background="FRNTPAGES8CP.jpg" >
>
> The schools code and mine appear identical
So? w3schools are:
(a) Not, IMO, very good
(b) Not affiliated with the W3C
There is no background attribute for the table data cell element:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html
Use CSS for presentational detail such as background images.
> Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an
> SGML parser.
> 1. Line 7, column 6: end tag for "head" which is not finished
> </head>
The <title> is required.
> I have used the same "DOCTYPE and <meta http-equiv=" as w3cschools
> uses.
The meta http-equiv that says an XHTML document has content type of
text/html? Oh dear.
<meta http-equiv> is suboptimal anyway:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html
I wouldn't suggest you learn XHTML until you have a good grasp of HTML.
XHTML has a few nasty gotchas. http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
> I am bewildered as to why I get an error.
The validator checks a document against a DTD.
Your document uses non-standard stuff which doesn't appear in the DTD
you selected.
Therefore, you get an error.
--
David Dorward
<http://dorward.me.uk/>
<http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>
Received on Monday, 10 May 2004 04:11:15 UTC