Re: Titles & Divs

1) Yes, the title is just a standards thing.  According to the HTML 4.0 
specification, "Every HTML document must have a TITLE element in the HEAD 
section," although I suppose you have an empty one.  I almost always use a 
title.  The only exception is when I have apage that I intend to be accessed 
only within frames.

2) The specification mentions no need for an align attribute with the DIV 
tag.  It's just that authors often use it so they don't have to put <P 
align=right> for every paragraph of a right-aligned section, or something 
similar.


----Original Message Follows----
From: David.Artiss(at)boots.co.uk
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org

Good morning ;-)

I've run my new site through a validation tool and a couple of questions 
have come out of it - any assistance you can give me will be much 
appreciated.

1. I intend the site to be accessed via the main page and will be indexed 
with the search engines this way. I therefore haven't got any meta-tags on 
any of the other pages. I also don't have a title. The latter is the issue - 
the validator is telling me I need a title. Is this just for standards sake 
or is there a good reason why I should have one ?

2. I keep getting errors where I've used a DIV tag saying the ALIGN
parameter is missing. Huh ? An example can be found at
http://www.darkstorm.org/pulp/menu.htm. It's right in that I'm not using an 
ALIGN parameter, but I didn't know I needed to.

(I'm using the HTML PowerAnalyzer by Talicom if anybody is interested)

Oh, and I get the digest of the list (and my email seems to eat them
occasionally - usually the one that's got the answers to one of my
questions in <grin>) so could you send replies to me as well as to the list?

TTFN,
David Artiss.




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