RE: Validation & Browser Questions

Tasha,
  I have never used that tag, but from the looks of it, it is indenting,
just not far enough. could you put in a couple of more UL tags to move it
over farther?

:-)
Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Tasha Yar
Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 10:12 PM
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
Subject: Validation & Browser Questions


Thanks again to everyone who helped me a few days ago.  Since you were so
helpful I have come back for more <g>.

After running my site through http://validator.w3.org/ I have more
questions than answers.  Some of the things that came up I could recognize
easily, like having open tags, etc.  However, there are some items that I
could use some clarification.

These are some of the errors that I received and perhaps someone more
seasoned could enlighten me as to my mistakes and how I may correct them.
Am I using tags that are exclusive to only NN4 (which I use) or just bad
html?  I ask because while visiting my father I took a gander at my site
through aol, which supposedly uses IE3 and I was embarrassed.

I had read in a number of sources that the <ul> could be used as a fake
indent and I did that so the text of my page could be to the right of the
border. Obviously that is not validating, however viewing it through IE 3
(and my friend tried IE4) the red line appears right in the middle of the
text. BTW, I ran my site through WebGarage and it told me that my HTML is
excellent.  Obviously I am not putting much faith in that, when I can see
for myself that is not so.

This is the site in question.  I knew going in that the geoguide wouldn't
validate, but I wanted to try to clean up everything else.

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/6311/



Error at line 145:
   adding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor=#FFFFFF width=468>
                                              an attribute value must
         be a literal unless it contains only name characters



Error at line 146:
   "http://www.geocities.com/" target="_top"><img width="101" h...
              there is no attribute "TARGET"



Error at line 80:
   <font face="arial, helvetica">


Error at line 158:
   CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="507" HEIGHT="116"> <TR> <TD VALIGN="c
              there is no attribute "HEIGHT"  (explanation...)

Error at line 164:
   w.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=actionman&id=1&next" target="_top">
                                                             general entity
                        "next" not defined and no default entity
(explanation...


I just tried to create a simpler ring code for people to add to their
sites, and once again through IE4 it looks disjointed, while it looks fine
in NN4.

http://www.tiac.net/users/tashayar/codetest4.html


Thanks in advance to anyone who can take the time to try to educate this
newbie.


L.A.

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