xhtml validation query
When validating my page at W3C validator after converting to XHTML 1.0 Transitional i am left with these 2 alerts that i do not understand how to amend in order to get the page to validate.
Any help appreciated, thanks...
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
Line 61, column 56: there is no attribute "summary" (explain...).
...op" align="left" width="121" summary="navigation bar"> Top
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imaputz posted this at 21:06 — 2nd June 2003.
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hard to tell from your post. would probably have to look at the full source. any chance you have a url to look at? or post a little more code around the lines you are having problems with.
evvo posted this at 21:14 — 2nd June 2003.
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OK spotted first error, the tag was on a TD tag not a TABLE tag.
Here is more code for 2nd error -
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Suzanne posted this at 21:21 — 2nd June 2003.
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You cannot have an inline element surrounding an block level element. The tag is inline ONLY. It must be within the .
evvo posted this at 21:32 — 2nd June 2003.
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Doh!!!! cheers.....
Renegade posted this at 03:13 — 3rd June 2003.
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Suzanne posted this at 12:10 — 3rd June 2003.
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To be fair, Renegade, what you meant is that it's not an ATTRIBUTE. However, it is an attribute -- of the element TABLE.
It is not, as you rightly state, an element, however elements are written like this: .
SO.
Right: ...
Wrong: Summary of something.
Regardless, it was fixed right away (as noted by the original poster).
Renegade posted this at 03:59 — 4th June 2003.
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Meh, my bad :'(
Suzanne posted this at 16:16 — 4th June 2003.
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