Posted by Ed Seedhouse on 02/06/07 23:38

On 6 Feb 2007 14:57:14 -0800, "Rob" <rdw204@soton.ac.uk> wrote:


>sorry, yeah it is http://www.brick-soton.co.uk/team.as

Um, no it's at http://www.brick-soton.co.uk/team.asp

Do you ever check what you write?

>my mistake. The 422 errors are all because of simple HTML?!

No, because of over-complicated messy html. Probably done with some
ugly "What you see is what you get" editor, perpaps Word or some other
Office applicationsjudging by the classname of the table.


>have I
>used the wrong Doctype or something?

Yes, but that isn't the cause of the problems. CSS rules are *defined*
for *valid* html or xhtml. If you don't give it that, and you aren't
even close, you have no basis for complaint about the results in any
browser.

You should not be using the transitional doctype, you should be using
strict, probably html 4.01 strict. Forget about xhtml.

In either case, writing valid html or xhtml is not just an important
skill, it is absolutely vital. If you can't undertake to learn to do
that forget about designing web pages.

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