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Oct 13.2003

I was wondering if anyone knew what appropriate document type setting was if I want to use the height attribute?

Dreamweaver puts these in tables by default, but they do come in useful sometimes.

Below is the information I got when running the page through the W3 validator.

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from [URL=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.talent.co.uk%2Ftalent_index2.php#line-19]http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.talent.co.uk%2Ftalent_index2.php#line-19[/URL]

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Line 19, column 29: there is no attribute “HEIGHT” (explain…).
<table width=”100%” height=”25″ border=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″>
^

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You have used an attribute with an element that is defined not to have that attribute. This is most commonly caused by using vendor-specific attributes without setting the document type appropriately.

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@CharlesOct 13.2003 — [font=georgia]The TABLE element has no "height" attribute in any valid HTML doctype with which I am familiar. Stop using Dreamweaver.[/font]
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@neilauthorOct 13.2003 — Its also telling me that there is no attribute for width or border either and it also seems to be asking for ALT tags with every IMG
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@neilauthorOct 13.2003 — [i]Originally posted by Charles [/i]

[B][font=georgia]The TABLE element has no "height" attribute in any valid HTML doctype with which I am familiar. Stop using Dreamweaver.[/font] [/B][/QUOTE]

oh right, thats not very good ?
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@Sux0rZh_jc0rzOct 13.2003 — try HTML 4.0 transitional
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@toicontienOct 13.2003 — According to www.w3schools.com, the <td> tag has the height attribute in HTML 4.01 Transitional and Frameset.

For a great reference for HTML 4.01 tags, see http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp
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@CharlesOct 13.2003 — [i]Originally posted by Sux0rZh@jc0rz [/i]

[B]try HTML 4.0 transitional [/B][/QUOTE][i]From the HTML 4.0 Transitional Document Type Definition:[/i]

[font=monospace][b]<!ATTLIST TABLE -- table element --

%attrs; -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --

summary %Text; #IMPLIED -- purpose/structure for speech output--

width %Length; #IMPLIED -- table width --

border %Pixels; #IMPLIED -- controls frame width around table --

frame %TFrame; #IMPLIED -- which parts of frame to render --

rules %TRules; #IMPLIED -- rulings between rows and cols --

cellspacing %Length; #IMPLIED -- spacing between cells --

cellpadding %Length; #IMPLIED -- spacing within cells --

align %TAlign; #IMPLIED -- table position relative to window --

bgcolor %Color; #IMPLIED -- background color for cells --

%reserved; -- reserved for possible future use --

datapagesize CDATA #IMPLIED -- reserved for possible future use --

 >[/b][/font]

[i]http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/sgml/loosedtd.html[/i][/quote][font=georgia]1) HTML 4.0 was superseded by HTML 4.01 back in 1999.

2) The TABLE element has no "height" attribute in HTML 4.0.[/font]
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@spufiOct 13.2003 — For your <input> tag errors.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.4

The alt attribute is required for <img> tags because the alt attribute information is displayed if the image isn't. You can leave the alt attribute blank(alt="") if you don't want anything displayed if the image can't be displayed.

For absbottom info.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Test/Img/imgtest.html

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