CSS WAS valid...now generating warnings!?
What the hell!?
I've not edited anything anywhere, but suddenly my style sheets *everywhere*. are generating warnings!
Therse were perfectly fine before!
Here are the warnings from my previously fine weblog:
* Line : 8 (Level : 2) Redefinition of margin-left : body
* Line : 9 (Level : 2) Redefinition of margin-right : body
* Line : 10 (Level : 2) Redefinition of margin-top : body
* Line : 11 (Level : 2) Redefinition of margin-bottom : body
* Line : 23 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : p
* Line : 30 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .italic
* Line : 37 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : H1
* Line : 41 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : a:link
* Line : 42 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : a:visited
* Line : 43 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : a:hover
* Line : 45 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : a.newcolor:link
* Line : 46 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : a.newcolor:visited
* Line : 47 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : a.newcolor:hover
* Line : 55 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color : .tdback
* Line : 61 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color : .tdback2
* Line : 67 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color : .tdside
* Line : 116 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .icon
* Line : 135 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .text
* Line : 143 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .links
* Line : 149 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .heading
* Line : 155 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .posthead
* Line : 161 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .copyright
* Line : 167 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .emp
* Line : 177 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .author
* Line : 187 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : H5
* Line : 198 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color : .input
* Line : 199 (Level : 1) Family names containing whitespace should be quoted. If quoting is omitted, any whitespace characters before and after the name are ignored and any sequence of whitespace characters inside the name is converted to a single space. : .input
* Line : 208 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color : .textarea
* Line : 209 (Level : 1) Family names containing whitespace should be quoted. If quoting is omitted, any whitespace characters before and after the name are ignored and any sequence of whitespace characters inside the name is converted to a single space. : .textarea
* Line : 223 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .header
* Line : 230 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:hover
* Line : 230 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:hover
* Line : 230 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:hover
* Line : 230 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:hover
* Line : 230 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:hover
* Line : 235 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:link
* Line : 236 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:visited
* Line : 237 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:active
* Line : 238 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .navlinks a:hover
* Line : 246 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .weekdays
* Line : 254 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:hover
* Line : 254 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:hover
* Line : 254 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:hover
* Line : 254 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:hover
* Line : 254 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:hover
* Line : 256 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:link
* Line : 257 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:visited
* Line : 258 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:active
* Line : 259 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .monthdays a:hover
What am I supposed to do? Add background-color: none; or something? That seems dumb to me....extra lines for no reason.
Roo
Renegade posted this at 03:54 — 28th September 2005.
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What you have a color:; with no background:; the validator gives a warning, so just do something like this:
color:#000;background-color:inherit;
or
background-color:#000;color:inherit;
Roo posted this at 04:01 — 28th September 2005.
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Yeah, but when did that start? These always validated perfectly until now.
Busy posted this at 10:13 — 28th September 2005.
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It's just a warning not an error, if your worried about file size just ignore it, otherwise as Renegade suggests.
Has been like that for a while, they seem to keep changing the goal posts
Megan posted this at 13:24 — 28th September 2005.
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That doesn't make any sense. I'd ignore it. It's like the accessibility validator (forget what it's called) that give you a warning on every gif in case it might be flashing and causing seisures
Why should you have to have a background color with your color? No reason!
Actually, I would complain to the w3c that stuff like that is making your CSS un-valid.
Megan
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Greg K posted this at 14:40 — 28th September 2005.
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When someone checks it does it still say it is valid CSS (with warnings) or invalid?
-Greg
Roo posted this at 15:58 — 28th September 2005.
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It says it's valid but then lists the warnings underneath. I don't like warnings! Im anal like that!
kazimmerman posted this at 20:07 — 28th September 2005.
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Yeah, I receive a lot of warnings like that too. I would simply worry about whether or not it is valid. If you seriously want everything to be right, then correct the warnings, but that is a big pain in the butt and isn't that worth it to tell you the truth.
Kurtis
technostick posted this at 17:34 — 30th September 2005.
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I agree...
Warnings aren't necessarily bad, I just like my HTML to be valid.
Roo posted this at 17:47 — 30th September 2005.
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Okay well once you use shorthand in the body for margins, and declare background-color in *everything* warnings disappear. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
JabezDesign posted this at 23:17 — 4th October 2005.
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The main reason why CSS is changing when validating is for the new browsers that will and are coming out, especially IE7.
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