- From: Chris <cearle@smythco.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:22:14 -0400
- To: www-validator@w3.org, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
> ...but I guess you're using the "/>" notation to end elements with a > non-X(HT)ML DTD, which is not allowed in earlier HTML versions. So, > the SGML parser disagrees with you about where the elements in your > document begin and end. We are using the HTML 4.01 transistional DTD, where it is apparently allowed (works on other pages). > > Try replacing "<br />" with "<br>" and other similar ones if you have > them (like link, hr, img etc), that should fix it. > > And while I'm at it, posting references to URLs that exhibit > unexpected behaviour is always a good idea, that'll provide people on > this list with enough information for useful problem analysis. > Sorry, it's behind a login, so I can't post a URL, however, here is a larger chunk of the code. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> . . . <td> <b>Label Prices Menu</b> <p/> <a href="labelprices.php?command=list">List Label Price Records</a><BR /> <a href="labelprices.php?command=search&resetsearch=true">Search Label Price Database</a><BR /> <a href="labelprices.php?command=add">Add Label Price Record</a><BR /> <a href="labelprices.php?command=edit&set_id_number=false">Edit Label Price Record</a><BR /> <a href="labelprices.php?command=delete">Delete Label Price Record</a><BR /> <a href="labelprices.php?command=report">Customer Price Report</a><BR /> <a href="labelprices.php?command=percentage">Percentage Increase/Decrease/Rollback</a> </td> The validator pukes on the first "/" between "Increase/Decrease/Rollback" It causes it to think the a href is unterminated, and the /a is unmatched. Changing <BR /> to <BR> has no effect.
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