HTML 4.01 Valid?
OK, so I get done with a site and run it thru the w3 html validator. I had to employ some background images for some od the td's. I have a single invalid piece of code pertaining to the background.
My question is, Is there an alternative to using a background image in a cell, yet still get the same effect and gain HTML 4.01 validity?
Busy posted this at 21:02 — 29th April 2004.
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use CSS
put something like
.tdbg {background-image: url("image.gif");
in your style sheet or add style tags around it and place at top of page, then in td cell just put
...
CSS and HTML/XHTML are different things, bad CSS wont stop HTML from validating, unless your missing quotes etc, same as validating CSS, bad HTML wont effect it even if included in the page.
kb posted this at 21:07 — 29th April 2004.
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Quick question...
If you are validating...why are you validating to HTML 4.01 instead of xHTML? They aren't that different, and if you're gonna put in the effort, you might as well code "for the future"
xHTML
mjs416 posted this at 01:17 — 30th April 2004.
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Screw that. I tried to validate with XHTML 1.0 and got several dozen more errors. I'd rather deal with 1 issue then 50 issues. Thanks anyways though.
kb posted this at 01:24 — 30th April 2004.
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Ok...
Just a note: sometimes 50 errors can be like 12 that all, um, cascade...lol. Seriously though, you should check out the docs on xHTML...the major differences are that all positioning and styling are in CSS, you have to add an xml declaration at the top of the page, and tags like![]()
and turn into ![]()
m3rajk posted this at 12:56 — 13th May 2004.
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hell. i have mine validate in html 4.01 since that's the dominant and i'm not sure m$ie was made to understand xhtml. however, the metas are the only thing not done in an xhtml style (< /> instead of < >)
when i validate for xhtml 1.0 loose, most of mine validate with the meta restrictions the few that dont... they ALWAYS have cascade issues. meaning they have like 200 errors and when you look it all comes down to about 5 lines and you fix them and remove all 200 errors. most of the time i take the time to do that
POSIX. because a stable os that doesn't have memory leaks and isn't buggy is always good.
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