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Confusing Validation reporting with W3C Validator


scorpion

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I am using HTML 4.01 Strict Doc declaration and trying to do the right thing and validate my site using

http://validator.w3.org/

I am getting multiple errors with:-


[This line displays perfectly in FF and IE7]

 

Errors reported with this line are:-

Attribute "WIDTH" is not a valid attribute. Did you mean "width"? [the '2' is red and underlined]

Attribute "SIZE" is not a valid attribute. Did you mean "size"? [the '5' is red and underlined]

Attribute "COLOR" is not a valid attribute. Did you mean "color"? [ the first quotation mark is red and underlined]

 

Am I doing anything wrong or should I ignore these 'errors'?

 

There are similar 'errors' posted throughout the code, eg:-

Text Here

element "FONT" undefined. Did you mean "font"? [the '>' after size="2" is red and underlined]

 

I am clearly using lowercase not uppercase as suggested. Anything else I need to do?

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Do you have a link to the page? Looks like you're at least missing the quotes around the 200 and the 5.

 

And, according to http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_hr.asp All "presentation attributes" of the hr element were deprecated in HTML 4.01, and are not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD. (and in HTML 4.01 obviously not, either) -- you can style it with CSS.

 

The font tag has also long been deprecated. -- again, use CSS for your formatting.

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I have found the deprecation details on HTML 4.01 strict and am working through it.

 

I have tried adding to the CSS:-

hr.divide {

width:200px;

color:#506F89;

size:5px;

}

 

And HTML


 

Width works but color and size do not.

 

Changing HTML to:-


 

Gives width and thickness but no color.

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Try using a bottom border on the element instead of an
to see if the warnings go away. I think they will.

 

I am only wanting the line to be 200px long, not full width of the element.

Solved the problem by using using the line as an image, bar.jpg

 

Bar

With css

 

.center {

text-align: center:

}

This appears to center the 200px long, 5px wide blue dividing line as required.

 

I will back with more... I still have lots of errors reported !!!

Learning lots though ....

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I have tried adding to the CSS:-

hr.divide {

width:200px;

color:#506F89;

size:5px;

}

 

And HTML


 

Width works but color and size do not.

 

Changing HTML to:-


 

Gives width and thickness but no color.

 

Some browsers process color, some background-color, so you have to use both styles.

 

See http://www.wickham43.net/horizontalrule.html for general information.

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bar.jpg

The purpose of an alt tag is to describe to one who may not be able to see the image (a search engine or a vision impaired surfer) what they are missing. So if you post a photo of your dog chasing a ball, write alt="My dog Spot chasing a red ball in the back yard". The image above is purely decorative and serves absolutely no purpose content-wise. So there you would write alt="".
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Good point, Thelma. I guess I was in a hurry here. In the case above, I have removed that image entirely and replaced, thanks to Wickham's tutorial, as follows

 

In the CSS:-

hr.bar {

width:200px;

height:4px;

color:#506F89;

background-color:#506F89;

text-align:center;

border:none;

}

 

In the HTML:-


 

I will, however, go through all my other images and set up the 'alt' tag more appropriately, thank you for bringing it to my attention.

 

My next problem is, How does one change a word or two in the middle of a line of text into a different color? Using a class in

..

breaks the line of course. I can .. or .. OK but .. is not allowed in 4.01
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If it is just one time in the entire site you want to do that, just use inline styling

 

Bla bla bla bla bla bla.

 

If you'll use that coloring more often:

 

something gray

 

And in your css, style the .gray.

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Once again I thank you Thelma, is what I was needing.

 

I tend to learn by absorbing each tag as I need it. Trying to learn all the tags and their attributes is so DRY until you have a use for that particular one! I have been using the search feature of W3C Schools Tutorials to find answers which is useful, but sometimes trying to find something like 'changing color within a line of text' doesn't get me a solution at W3C.

 

I have 13 pages now that validate to 4.01 strict so I am progressing!

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I am chuffed!!! All 35 pages on my website have now validated to HTML 4.01 Strict !

 

It may not be the prettiest but I am happy with my efforts, all hand coded. Thank you all for your help in getting me up to speed.

 

Notepage++ is such a great program ... cheers all!

 

Dennis Wright

www.irishtype3dna.org/

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