Validation Questions

[mark4man]

OK...I did it!

I converted my XHTML compliant site back to HTML...

...by freakin' hand (as in, "manually.")

(& for those that helped me to determine that as the correct approach...thanks.)

I replaced the XHTML prologue with HTML, for every page (&...I apologize if that's a misspell...everyone else seems to spell it "prolog.")

Then I rewrote all the image, meta, object, area & line break tags to HTML standard...

...& validated the entire site (in Dreamweaver.)

There are a few errors that I am having trouble with; & I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction (& believe me...I am very appreciative of all the help already received in the board):

1) The tag: "table" doesn't have an attribute. "height" in currently active versions.

All I did here was to place a Table inside of a Layer. It seems to look fine on the web. Can't figure out why this is an error.

2) The tag: "marquee" is not allowed within: "strong" is only allowed within: body.

Here, I placed a scrolling marquee script (again, inside a Layer.) I made the text bold, because it looked weak, otherwise. I was under the impression that it only worked in IE, but a friend of mine informed me that it works for them in Navigator, as well. Is having a scrolling marquee a problem? Is there a better way to accomplish this?

3) I have 4 tags *above* the <!DOCTYPE> tag:

<cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding="iso-8859-1"/>
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<cfset setEncoding("URL", "iso-8859-1")/>
<cfset setEncoding("FORM", "iso-8859-1")/>,

...which were written there when I placed a PayPal button on a merchandise page, which links to a payment form at PayPal. The Validator claims the "cfprocessingdirective", "cfcontent" & "cfset" tags are not found in currently active versions.

Not quite sure what to do about this one. I feel weird about the location, primarily (above the DTD.) Is it that, or the tags themselves?

4) The tag name: "embed" not found in currently active versions.

This came about due to the fact that I placed 4 Flash Buttons on a page. They also seem to work fine.
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Thanks for any help,

mark4man

 

[deadserious]

Are you trying to validate your html using dreamweaver? Have you tried using the validators at W3.Org http://validator.w3.org/ ?

Also you may try running your code through Html tidy http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/tidy and then try and revalidate to see if it elimnates some of the errors you're getting.

 

[mark4man]

deadserious...

From Dreamweaver's validator. My intention was to repair there first; & then parse the site in W3C. But, when you mentioned W3C, my curiosity got the better of me; & I did so, anyway.

Here's the results:

1) Line 104, column 198: required attribute "ALT" not specified
..." width="262" height="262" border="0"></a></div>
^
2) Line 106, column 106: element "MARQUEE" undefined
...Roman, Times, serif"><strong><marquee>escape
^
3) Line 133, column 32: there is no attribute "BORDERCOLOR"
<td width="142" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"><p> </p>

Somewhat better?

Thanks,

mark4man