- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:55:27 +0200 (EET)
- To: Miskovic <ivanm@slingshot.co.nz>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Miskovic wrote: > Hi, I have gotten this error: an attribute value specification must be an > attribute value literal unless SHORTTAG YES is specified > > for this line of code: <meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1" /> You have probably misanalyzed the error message. Look again, check the explanation, and post the URL if symptoms recur. > Also, I get a few of these errors: there is no attribute "background" > > for lines of code such as this: <td width="42" > background="images/main/sidebar_left.png" height="172"> and clearly the > attribute is specified and allowed in the XHTML 1.0 Transitional > specifications to my knowledge. Stop relying on your memory, and check the specifications (ultimately, the DTDs). The background attribute for <td> was _never_ part of any HTML specification. (And it's simple to use CSS instead.) > For a macromedia Flash embed movie I receive this error: element "embed" > undefined Quite simple, is it not? > But the code was generated by macromedia Flash Irrelevant. It still isn't valid for any HTML specification. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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