Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 03/21/06 20:28

mfunkmann@yahoo.com wrote:

> I want to make my Homepage completely w3 validator compatible. I fixed
> most of the errors but one I can't fix:
>
> Error Line 15 column 10: ID "MENUPOINT" already defined.
>
> <div id="menupoint"><br><a href="index.php?get=2">Contact</a></div>
>
> An "id" is a unique identifier. Each time this attribute is used in a
> document it must have a different value. If you are using this
> attribute as a hook for style sheets it may be more appropriate to use
> classes (which group elements) than id (which are used to identify
> exactly one element).
>
> So I have declared all styles in seperate file linked in the head
> (<link href="style.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet>)
>
> a typical entry in this file looks like this:
>
> #menupoint
> {
> border-bottom: 1px solid #A6A0C7;
> }
>
>
>
> So how should I replace <div id"..... to get the same result??

Use the CLASS attribute:

<div class="menupoint">...</div>

And in your stylesheet:

..menupoint
{ ... }


And a more global remark. Perhaps what you want to achive should better be
done like this:

<ul id="menu">
<li><a ... </a></li>
<li><a ... </a></li>
<li><a ... </a></li>
</ul>

With a stylesheet like

#menu
{
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

#menu li
{
border-bottom: 1px solid #A6A0C7;
margin-top: 1em;
}

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

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