- From: Alexander Biron <biron@ifh.de>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:57:08 +0100 (MET)
- To: John Littler <linuxmusic@crosswinds.net>
- cc: html-tidy@w3.org
Hi John On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, John Littler wrote: > As far as I can tell html-tidy doesn't seem to handle > two columns of nested tables. I passed it over one doc > and it produced a staggered set ... > from XXXX XXXX > XXXX XXXX > to > XXXX > XXXX > XXXX > XXXX > Am I doing something wrong here? I did not experience any such difficutlties. One commmon problem with nested tables occurs when the author omits the optinoal end tags. If this is not the reason of your problem, please provide the URL of the page tidy has problems with. > ah, also it picks up <img> tags and > declares no "alt"s have been used when the <img> tag is > used as "background=" in a <td>. That's bogus. Depends on your point of view. The W3C HTML 4.x standards defines alt as being a required attribute for any kind of image. When tidy parses your document, it tries to associate the most appropriate HTML standard to your document and follows that standards requirements. So if tidy parses your document as HTML 4.0, tidy does not care whether that standard is bogus or not, it just follows it. BTW: you can define the standard your document follows with the Doctype declaration at the top of your document. Hope this helps, Cheers alex -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
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