Why wont it Validate

R8515198 · #1 Jun 18th, 2007, 12:11

I have tried to validate my website and it says that it will not due to the errors below

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...00=1&verbose=1

But I am confused with what I have to change. Can someone help please.

Cheers
Dan

karinne · #2 Jun 18th, 2007, 12:25

Pretty simple ... you have a <center> tag that not closed.

BTW ... you do realize the center element is deprecated yes?

You really shouldn't be using it.

CSS is what you should be using instead.

R8515198 · #3 Jun 18th, 2007, 12:39

Thank you very much,
Am now struggling to center using CSS please could you help.

Cheers
Dan

karinne · #4 Jun 18th, 2007, 13:15

How to center your site horizontally
body can be used to style too!

garfunkle · #5 Jun 18th, 2007, 16:40

I found a page searching google which said, that to obtain centre alignment you can set an elements formatting (using CSS) to this:
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

I currently use this style of alignment for my pages, for both centre and right alignment (seeings how left is by default :P).

Ryan Fait · #6 Jun 19th, 2007, 11:57

Or you can use shorthand garfunkle.

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margin: 0 auto;

garfunkle · #7 Jun 19th, 2007, 13:17

Yeah, i still feel more comfortable doing it the long way right now :S. I'll get to shortening it eventually.

cyclone2876 · #8 Jun 24th, 2007, 05:29

i had like 150 errors on my site but i dont really care about validating it yet

R8515198 · #9 Jun 28th, 2007, 15:02

Have made alot changes to the website and now have 5 errors cant figure out how to fix these ones.
(CSS is fine)

I want to keep the XHTML logo on there but if I cant validate it I will have to take it off.

Can someone help me yet again.

Cheers Dan

Lchad · #10 Jun 28th, 2007, 20:01

Error #1 wants you to add a equals symbol.

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id="btsidebar"

2) delete
target="_blank"

3-6 just add either the end> or the beginning<

karinne · #11 Jun 29th, 2007, 14:53

error 3 is because you need to add an id to the map element... usually the same as your name attribute.

pa007 · #12 Jun 29th, 2007, 15:21

The target attribute is not valid xhtml. You will have remove that in order to validate. A simple javascript pop-up would be better or no pop-up at all would probably be the best.

Pete.

cysquatch1 · #13 Jul 4th, 2007, 17:01

I spent about 4 hours trying to validate my page. And in did in the end. All the answers are there for you.

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