HTML Validator
Hello. I have gone to the w3c site several times (last night and today) and it seems like the HTML validator is not working at this time. Is the site down right now for maintenance or something? The address I went to is http://www.w3c.org/.
One more question, I read something on here about incorporating a negative value into some CSS in order to get rid of the extra space created by headings (such as h1, h2, etc.). Could someone provide an example of how to do this? Would it be something like the following:
h1 {padding: -5;}
I just used the word "padding" because I really don't know what other word to use. Thanks.
disaster-master posted this at 22:01 — 22nd March 2003.
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Try this. http://validator.w3.org/
fiesty_01 posted this at 23:33 — 22nd March 2003.
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It did the same thing . . . took me to the right page, but only the text box and buttons are showing (no words to be found, other than the word "validate" in the 2 buttons). I also tried entering a site address into the top text box ("validate URI"), and the next page where the results should be was nothing but more buttons and text boxes. It used to ask you to enter the character encoding and stuff like that, and show source code, but now right now it isn't doing either for me.
And . . . about that negative CSS value?
Suzanne posted this at 23:34 — 22nd March 2003.
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It's margin-bottom: -5px; -- you need to have the unit measure for all values above zero.
StyleMaster or TopStyle will help you learn how to use CSS.
Renegade posted this at 00:54 — 23rd March 2003.
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fiesty_01, could it be something to do with your browser settings?
disaster-master posted this at 00:56 — 23rd March 2003.
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Maybe this is what you are looking for.??
http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html
fiesty_01 posted this at 05:34 — 23rd March 2003.
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Renegade and Sonia: First, thanks for the CSS tip!
Second, on MSNtv, I am unable to manipulate my browser settings (as far as I know). I did just reset my cookies, but the last 2 links Sonia left gave me the same results. I did recently receive an "update" from MSN, which changed my browser from IE 2.7 to IE 2.8 External-Nondebug (whatever that means). I get updates like this occasionally, but I wouldn't think that a browser improvement would cause this.
By the way, the W3C home page looks fine. Also, this W3C site is (or, at least, was) an important "tool" for me as far as viewing source code and learning from it, since I have no "view source" option to choose like computers have.
Are there any other HTML validators on the web that also allow you to view source code? Hopefully this thing with the W3C is just a temporary problem, or perhaps it's down for some maintenance check or something. Imagine that, such a site being down for maintenance! Have any of you tried using the HTML validator lately to see if you see the same thing I'm seeing?
disaster-master posted this at 08:11 — 23rd March 2003.
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It is working fine for me. Now, I believe that if your page doesn't have a doctype or the correct one it won't show the source listing. Could that be your problem?
This one does. Just enter your URL and run the test.
Fiesty, remove the comment tags (in red) from around your doctype. You should be able to see the source listing then.
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fiesty_01 posted this at 22:15 — 23rd March 2003.
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Thanks Sonia. Actually, I have seen the source listing (of my site) several times before on the W3C HTML validator (with the in place). But I've been unable to validate or check the source of ANY site (mine or anyone else's) lately for some reason. Oh well, thanks for the link to that other page. Seems like many of my errors right now are JavaScript errors (such as missing NAME or TYPE). Not sure how I'm gonna check the XHTML 1.0 Transitional Stuff, though (go on what I know is transitional, I guess). Thanks again!
disaster-master posted this at 15:13 — 24th March 2003.
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Have you even tried to remove the comment tags from the doctype and see if the w3c validator works?
Why do you have the doctype in comment tags anyway?
Suzanne posted this at 16:03 — 24th March 2003.
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Because the validator does that if you suppress the doctype and replace it with their own. They also note you'll have to make the changes yourself to make it REALLY valid when you do that. DOCTYPE cannot be commented out and work. Period.
fiesty_01 posted this at 23:55 — 24th March 2003.
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Okay, I'll try removing the comments. I think I saw the comments around the DOCTYPE when viewing the source code of someone's site on here. Might have been one of Busy's sites, but I'm not sure. All I did was type it out as it was on the source code of who ever's site I was viewing the source code of. Again, I'll removing the comments, but I don't know if that will be enough to solve this problem because it used to work fine for me (up until I tried to use the HTML validator Friday night).
Thanks to you both.
fiesty_01 posted this at 01:20 — 25th March 2003.
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Well, I removed the comments, but unfortunately got the same almost "blank" pages (other than normal home page, and the text boxes and buttons only on the validator pages). It's as if the thing doesn't want me to view it. I scrolled down on the one page, and there were bullets down the left margin, then numbers following that (from 1 - 104, I think, then repeating again down the page), but no text. Very strange, especially after it's worked so well for about 4 months or so now. Perhaps it is something to do with that new browser "update" I got from MSN.
disaster-master posted this at 02:24 — 25th March 2003.
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fiesty,
See if you can see THIS.
fiesty_01 posted this at 06:16 — 25th March 2003.
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It still looks the same. It has the W3C logo in the upper-left at the top. Below that I saw the text box with the link to my site in it, and there's two blank (no text) drop-down boxes to the right of that text box. Just below that, there is a button that says "Revalidate" with 6 check boxes beside it (no text anywhere around these). Below that and down the left margin, there are a bunch of blue-colored bullets (no text beside them, just the white of the page), then it starts the numbers and goes all the way from 1-804. I previously thought it was numbering 1-104, then restarting, but it was just a problem with seeing the first numberwhen it got up past 99 (I had trouble seeing all 3 digits of the hundreds).
Beats me, but thanks for trying. Btw, I don't mind if you call me Steve.
Renegade posted this at 09:24 — 25th March 2003.
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Have you tried looking at the site/page on someone elses computer? Could be your computer that's causing the problem...
Can you remember setting/installing/uninstalling anything recently?
Is the cable plugged in?
If all else fails, get rid of MSNtv
fiesty_01 posted this at 17:32 — 25th March 2003.
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Not yet, but it looks like I will have to use the one at the library if I ever want to use the W3C site again.
Yes, it's plugged in.
However, the MSNtv thing will likely be with us for a while. Maybe one of these days, though. 
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