Re: Why doesn't W3C validator like nested tables?

by Carole Anne Gay <carole(at)designs.com>

Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:02:43 -0700
To:	hwg-style(at)hwg.org, arkady <arkady473(at)yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To:	yahoo
	todo: View Thread, Original

The problem is that you are trying to nest tables within tables.  If you want to nest a table, it must be contained in a <td> and closed before the </td>.

Hope this helps,

Carole

9/26/2002 8:50:07 AM, arkady <arkady473(at)yahoo.com> wrote:

>This is the previous "Four lines and a question until validation" post. Now the w3c
>validator is giving this error message re: nested tables for the page at
>http://dkc.mse.jhu.edu/~cyork/dkcsite/template.html
>
>
>Line 107, column 50: 
>  ... ence news briefs with a link to each full article"> 
>                                                       ^
>Error: element "table" not allowed here; possible cause is an inline element
>containing a block-level element 
>
>Other than never again using tables for page layout, what could resolve this?
>Thanks much.
>Arkady
>
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