- From: hg safds <introvertedboi@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:37:19 -0500
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Thank you for your help. ;) You made more sense then the F.A.Q. page. ;)
>From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
>Reply-To: www-validator@w3.org
>To: hg safds <introvertedboi@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: I am indesperate need of help
>Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:59:38 +1000
>
>hg safds wrote:
>>Here is my results.
>
>It is *much more convenient* if you simply provide a URL for the
>document in question, rather than copying an entire results page
>into an e-mail.
>
>Tip: Don't panic about having lots of errors, just focus on one at a
>time.
>
>> No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
>
>The character encoding for the document needs to be specified.
>There are many to choose from and browsers should not need to guess
>which encoding was used. You may need to consult the documentation
>for your editor to determine which encoding the files are being
>saved as, but this is commonly ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII or UTF-8.
>Beware of editors that save as Windows-1252, even though they claim
>to use ANSI – they're lying.
>
>http://www.w3.org/International/resource-index.html#charset
>
>>So what should I do? Tell me more...
>><http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-charset>
>
>The FAQ actually does provide some useful information, I assume you
>actually read it before you posted?
>
>> No DOCTYPE Found! Falling Back to HTML 4.01 Transitional
>
>Use the correct DOCTYPE.
>
>>So what should I do? Tell me more...
>><http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-doctype>
>
>The FAQ provides more than enough information, but I'd recommend you
>use HTML 4.01 Strict or Transitional and start the document with
>this DOCTYPE. Either of these (not both) should be the first thing
>in the file. You need to pick the most appropriate for your needs.
>If you are using deprectated features, you need to use transitional,
>although you should work to be able to use strict in the future.
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
>
>Transitional is probably the most appropriate for your needs at the
>moment.
>
>> /Line 6, column 16/: there is no attribute
"TOPMARGIN"
>>
>> |<body topmargin=*"*0" leftmargin="0"
bottommargin="0"
>>rightmargin="0">|
>
>Those 4 margin attributes are non-standard, proprietary extensions.
>Remove them and use CSS instead:
>
>body { margin: 0; }
>
>That has exactly the same effect as those attributes.
>
>> /Line 8, column 22/: document type does not allow element
>>"STYLE" here
>>
>> |<style type="text/css"*>*{ }|
>
>Style elements belong within the <head>. They cannot be used
>anywhere within the <body>. Move this to the head like this.
>
><head>
> <title>Document Title</title>
> <style type="text/css">
> body { margin: 0; }
> /* Insert more CSS here */
> </style>
></head>
>
>> /Line 159, column 6/: end tag for element "HEAD"
which is
>>not open
>>
>> |</head*>*|
>
>This often happens when you have used XHTML syntax for an empty
>element such as <link /> or <meta />. In HTML, do not use
the /, it
>has a different meaning in HTML from XHTML, which can cause this
>strange error. I suspect this would also be the cause of the
>previous error with the style element.
>
>eg. Instead of
><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="style.css" />
>use
><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="style.css">
>
>> /Line 160, column 5/: document type does not allow element
>>"BODY" here
>
>This should get fixed by fixing the previous error.
>
>> /Line 163, column 62/: required attribute "ALT" not
>>specified
>>
>>
>>|...c="http://www.44caliberlove.com/images/toplayout1.jpeg"*>*|
>
>Images must have alternate text which is used when the images are
>not available for some users for any reason.
>http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/alttext
>http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/alt-tooltips
>http://www.htmlhelp.com/feature/art3.htm
>
>> /Line 166, column 110/: there is no attribute
>>"ALLOWTRANSPARENCY"
>>
>> |...auto; z-index: 2;"
allowtransparency=*"*true">|
>
>That is a non-standard proprietary extension, and I don't even know
>what it's for. Remove it.
>
>> /Line 234, column 7/: there is no attribute
"BORDER"
>>
>> |border=*"*0" name="submit" alt="|
>
>There is no border attribute for that element. I suspect it's an
>input element, probably a type="image". You could specify the
>border using CSS.
>
>> /Line 269, column 6/: end tag for element "FONT"
which is
>>not open
>>
>> |</font*>*</div>|
>
>Remove all font elements! There is absolutely no reason to continue
>using them, use CSS instead. To fix this error though, simply
>remove the extraneous </font> end-tag.
>
>> /Line 272, column 116/: end tag for "DIV" omitted,
but its
>>declaration
>> does not permit this
>>...
>> /Line 272, column 0/: start tag was here
>>
>> |*<*div style="position:absolute; top:475; left:50;
>>width:396px; overflow:
>> auto; z-|
>
>You need to make sure the start- and end-tags for elements are
>balanced. ie. For every start tag (<div>), you must have a
matching
>end tag (</div>) unless it is an empty element. Empty elements
are
><img>, <br>, <link>, <meta>, etc. You must also
make sure elements
>are nested correctly.
>
>This is wrong because the elements are overlapping:
>
><x>
> <y>
> </x>
></y>
>
>This is the correct way:
><x>
> <y>
> </y>
></x>
>
>--
>Lachlan Hunt
>http://lachy.id.au/
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>
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