- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:46:55 +0200 (EET)
- To: "Patrick Clear (ICQ#2163761)" <patrick.clear@intellidev.com>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Patrick Clear (ICQ#2163761) wrote: > Recently I've been trying to validate my site - - You don't specify any URL. Reporting a suspected error in a validator should always be accompanied with a URL of a document which demonstrates the problem. > According to the validator > 1) the <TD> tag does not have the width tag (in some instances) This sounds like you have validated against the HTML 4.0 Strict specification in some cases and against HTML 4.0 Transitional is some others. Some URLs would have made this clear. > 2) Name is not a valid attribute for <img> (some of the time) No published specification for HTML by IETF or W3C allows a NAME attribute for the IMG element, so the parenthetic remark sounds strange. Perhaps you validated against a customized DTD? Cf. to http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/forms/javascript.html#nameattr > 3) noshade is not support by the <HR> tag > 4) width is not supported by the <HR> tag As in case 1). > 5) p is not allowed to have a class assigned to it (some of the time) This sounds like you have validated against HTML 2.0 or HTML 3.2. The document type declaration at the beginning of an HTML document is _crucial_ for validation. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.2 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#html http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.3 Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/ or http://yucca.hut.fi/yucca.html
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