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Aug 25.2004

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I was not sure where to place this topic, so I placed it here in “HTML”
I finally managed to get a working math program in Javascripting and I’m really excited about it, however, when I went to validate it, I was returned with a number of errors. I fixed most of them, but one has me stumped:

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Line 88, column 11: there is no attribute “NAME”
<form NAME=”wall_calculator” method=”post” ACTION=”wallcalc.html”>

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[URL=http://www.epourania.com/wallcalc/wallcalc.html]http://www.epourania.com/wallcalc/wallcalc.html[/URL]

Here is the site and I used the 3WC validator.
I have a difficult time finding the specs for forms on the 3WC site, I found it once, but I can’t seem to find it now.
I don’t understand what it means “…no attribute “NAME”…” well I have the NAME right there.
It also went on to explain something about CSS. I don’t know what that is, or rather I know it’s Cascading Style Sheets, but I haven’t studied that one yet.
“<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>”
is my first line. Do I need to change this somehow to CSS?

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@FangAug 25.2004 — You are using an invalid [URL=http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html]DTD[/URL]

Use:
&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;

[URL=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.3]The form element[/URL]
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@anothenauthorAug 25.2004 — YES!!!

That did it. Thanks Fang.

Can I use that on all my pages, or is there a simple way I can determine which DTD's I should use?

latest update: [URL=http://www.epourania.com/wallcalc/wallcalc.html]http://www.epourania.com/wallcalc/wallcalc.html[/URL]

note:

Oh, I just realized you gave me a link to the Form Specs, thanks, I needed that.
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@CharlesAug 25.2004 — You should be using HTML 4.01 Strict. 4.01 Transitional was for a special use that no longer applies. It does, however, allow a lot of errors to pass the validator - which is why some web authors like it.

[font=monospace]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[/font]
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@anothenauthorAug 25.2004 — You're right, it is strict. It beat me down with 22 errors. I'll change it at some point, but for now I'll leave it as is.
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