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Nov 12.2003

Can anybody shed some light on this, please. I just validated a page & got some confusing results.
Here’s the first:

Line 6, column 5: document type does not allow element “HTML” here (explain…).
<html>

Here’s the source code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd“>

<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1″>
<html>
<head>

My best guess here is that if you use a doctype statement that includes “html” the actual <html> tag is not needed.(?)

Second thing I don’t understand:

Line 43, column 162: end tag for element “FONT” which is not open (explain…).
…FONT COLOR=black SIZE=2>”+msg+”</FONT></TD></tr></TABLE>”;

This is repeated for each of the closing tags, including the /table tag. Is this just because those tags aren’t necessary? That can’t be… how can you get away with not closing a table? I expect it has something to do with the javascript, but I’m clueless in that area.
Here is the code:

var content=”<TABLE WIDTH=180 BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR=red CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=0 “+”BGCOLOR=”+bak+”><tr><TD ALIGN=center><FONT COLOR=black SIZE=2>”+msg+”</FONT></TD></tr></TABLE>”;

TIA for whatever help you can give.

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@PeOfEoNov 12.2003 — drop the font tag and use css would be my suggestion to #2 and for #1 that meta tag needs to be in your head section, after your html and head tag.
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@Aronya1authorNov 12.2003 — I should've seen the meta tag location. Thanks.

Want to take another look at the second problem? I get the same message for all 4 closing tags.


And, hey, don't you sleep?
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@DaveSWNov 12.2003 — I've seen that problem before, and I think it's all to do with it being in the javascript part. I didn't find a solution last time tho.
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@CharlesNov 12.2003 — [i]Originally posted by DaveSW [/i]

[B]I didn't find a solution last time tho. [/B][/QUOTE][font=georgia]1) Put the JavaScript in an external file.

2) Escape the '/' [i]a la[/i] [font=monospace]document.write ('<p>Date:', new Date().toDateString(), '</p>')[/font].[/font]
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@Aronya1authorNov 12.2003 — [i]Originally posted by Aronya1 [/i]

[B]I expect it has something to do with the javascript, but I'm clueless in that area.[/B][/QUOTE]
Key phrase: "I'm clueless in that area." Thanks Charles, for the suggestions. I understand what you mean in #1, even if I might not know how to accomplish it. But #2 is just Greek. I'm going to try changing the table to a div & see what happens.
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@DaveSWNov 13.2003 — I think all he means is when you have a / - as in </p> then you need to put a in front of it to hide it. E.g </table> becomes </table>
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@Aronya1authorNov 13.2003 — Thanks for that, Dave. I'll try it & see what happens.
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