Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/17/06 17:00

Andy Dingley wrote:
> Yogi_Bear_79 wrote:
>
>> I'm using DreamWeaver, and not the GUI, just the code side. I ran the
>> validator as well, 90% of the items it is flagging appear to be correct when
>> I manually look at the code.
>
> Here's a clue. Either the validator is getting it grossly wrong, or
> you're getting it wrong somewhere and you just haven't seen it yet.
> Your call.... We get a _lot_ of W3C Validator bug reports in this ng,
> yet it seems to need awfully few fixes.
>
> And a hint - validators rarely report errors, they usually report the
> first point _afterwards_ when the document became provably invalid
> after an earlier error. So if you can't see what the error was, start
> looking where it was reported, then scan back upwards through it.
>

Hey Yogi have you viewed the page in a real browser (i.e., not IE)? If
so you would see that the validator is not in error...

LINE#27 <script language="JavaScript1.2" class="ddmenu">

SCRIPT elements do not have a CLASS attribute, LANGUAGE is deprecated,
TYPE is required...

LINE#53 <img src="clearpixel.gif" width="730" height="1">
The problem here is manifold: Firstly depending on JavaScript to great
your navigation is a bad idea for reasons explained ad nauseam in this
NG. Secondly your JavaScript appears to create tables within tables and
this would be between a TD and TR element which is a definite no-no.
Thirdly you should not use a space GIF bit style with padding and
margins. Forthly you should use tables for lists of links. And lastly
your script does not position your 'dropdown' menus in the correct place
Gecko browsers.

LINE#113 - 116
<p align="center"><img align="absmiddle" src="images/BeckettLogo.gif"</p>
....

All have the same error as I hinted in my first reply, you are missing
the '>' on the IMG tag.

There may be more errors but these where the most obvious. You markup
appears to indicate a cut'n paste affair. Cut'n Paste is not a bad thing
per se but you need to fully understand what the pieces functions are.
You need to brush up on the fundamentals here...

Another tip: Dump the JavaScript and use horizontal dropdown lists with
CSS for your menus, many examples

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=horizontal+CSS+drop+down+menu+&spell=1


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Take care,

Jonathan
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