HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN

Here is the URL.  (I didn't want to post it earlier because it had so many
errors, but I've cut WAY down on them now.):
http://www.schoolpad.net/indexTEST.php

This will replace the home page (index.php) when I've gotten the errors down
to zero.

Thanks,
Keith D Sellars
WebGraffix
www.webgraffix.com

"Making database sites seem easy"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian V Bonini" <b-bonini(at)cox.net>
To: "Keith Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 9:23 AM
Subject: RE: Validating dynamic sites


> What DTD are you trying to validate against? Can we see some markup or a
URL
> or something. I'd bet your style element error is due to improper
nesting...
> If your validating against the xhtml dtd remember that meta tags need to
end
> with  />
>
> Your second error is correct, you will not ever get that to validate. A.)
> Use CSS to set margins and screw non-compliant browsers (my personal
> preference) B.) Leave the margin attributes in (it will not break
anything)
> and live with the fact that your page does not validate. C.) Run a browser
> detection script and deliver variations of the markup dynamically to
> accommodate the different UA's.
>
> -Brian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
> > Behalf Of Keith Sellars
> > Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 12:48 PM
> > To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
> > Subject: Validating dynamic sites
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone.  Got a question for you.  I'm going through and validating
a
> > heavily used dynamic site that we've designed using php.  I have
> > a couple of
> > questions, some pretty basic and some not so basic (at least for me) on
> > validation:
> >
> > ERROR 1)
> > <style type="text/css">
> >                               ^
> > Error: element "STYLE" not allowed here; check which elements this
element
> > may be contained within
> >
> > The style tag above is contained directly under a META tag which
> > is directly
> > under a set of TITLE tags under my Opening HEAD tag.  Where
> > should the STYLE
> > tag go?
> >
> > ERROR 2)
> > leftMargin="0" topMargin="0"
> >                                          ^
> > Error: there is no attribute "LEFTMARGIN" for this element (in this HTML
> > version)
> >
> > Should we NOT use leftmargin, topmargin, marginheight, and marginwidth
> > elements at all?  If not, how do we ensure the pages are aligned
> > to the left
> > and top borders in Netscape?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Keith D Sellars
> > WebGraffix
> > www.webgraffix.com
> >
> > "Making database sites seem easy"
> >
>
>

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