- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@iinet.net.au>
- Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:04:58 +1100
- To: Glynn Williams <glynn@wowdesignsolutions.com>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Glynn Williams wrote:
> /Line 247, column 204/: required attribute "ALT" not specified
>
> |...0')" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"*>*|
It means you need to specify an alt attribute for the <img> and <area>
elements.
eg.
<area shape="rect" coords="2,1,59,34" href="/path/to/aboutus.html"
onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('aboutus',...)"
onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"
alt="About Us">
These are some good references for writing good alt text:
http://hixie.ch/advocacy/alttext
http://hixie.ch/advocacy/alt-tooltips
> Actual:
>
> <area shape="rect" coords="2,1,59,34" href="#"
That href="#" attribute is also quite useless. I hope you're actually
going to put in a proper link later, and not just use some onclick
attribute and javascript to provide the link. It is, unfortunately,
quite common to see people make that mistake, so I'm pointing it out in
the hope that you don't make it also.
> /Line 133, column 27/: there is no attribute "HEIGHT"
>
> |<table width="100%" height=*"*100%" border="0" cellpadding="0"
> cellspacing="0" bg|
There is no height attribute in any version of HTML for the table
element. You should remove it, and you should also remove the width,
border, cellpadding and cellspacing attributes. They are
presentational, and thus should be specified in an external stylesheet.
> /Line 139, column 52/: there is no attribute "BACKGROUND"
>
> |... colspan="2" align="left" background=*"*images/bv_logobg.gif"><img
> src="images/
Same problem. There is no background attribute allowed on the <td>
elements. It, and the align attribute are also presentational and
should be specified in an external stylesheet.
Some CSS to replace some of those looks like this:
table { width: 100%; height: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; }
td { padding: 0; background: white url(/images/bv_logo_bg.gif);
color: black; }
I suggest you look up some good CSS and HTML tutorials to learn how to
write good markup and use stylesheets properly. There are many
resources available.
http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/08/25/standards_re/comments/
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