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Posted by Rguy84 on 10/09/56 11:38
Uh grey, haven't you ran code through W3C validator lately? it says
what to do. Like my hit service gives url's with ampersands. This is a
no no, W3C says that and says I should change the & to & for
example.
GreyWyvern wrote:
> And lo, Adam Strickland didst speak in
> alt.html,alt.macromedia.dreamweaver,alt.www.webmaster:
>
> [top posting fixed]
>
> > "Paul Watt" <paulio@wattioNOSPAM.freeserve.co.uk> wrote...
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> The following code fails validation when used with a html 4.01 strict
> >> DTD.
> >> why and how can i fix it?
> >> TIA
> >> Paul
> >
> > The only thing i know is to close your img tag:
> >
> > <img src="images/search.gif" alt="search" width="70" height="13">
> >
> > like so:
> >
> > <img src="images/search.gif" alt="search" width="70" height="13" />
>
> Like William said, these are not allowed in HTML 4.01. All of these
> should be removed from the original code given.
>
> My question is, the OP gave us this block of code that didn't validate:
>
> >> <form action="/cgi-sys/entropysearch.cgi" target=searchwindow
> >> class="search">
> >> <img src="images/search.gif" alt="search" width="70" height="13">
> >> <input type="text" name="query" value="" />
> >> <input type="hidden" name="user" value="dunmowka" />
> >> <input type="hidden" name="basehref"
> >> value="http://dunmowkarate.co.uk"
> >> />
> >> <input type="hidden" name="template" value="default" />
> >> <input type="submit" value="Search" />
> >> </form>
>
> So who told him/her/it that it didn't validate? I don't know of any
> "validation" tool which fails to also supply you with information helpful
> in fixing the problem.
>
> Grey
>
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