Help validating

Oak · #1 Feb 3rd, 2008, 22:44

Hi

I can't seem to workout these errors.

Unless I have made some new ones today, this should make the site 100% valid.

Cheers

http://www.capoeiracanal.co.uk/capoe...ol-contact.php

Ed · #2 Feb 3rd, 2008, 22:53

Hi Oak.

These errors you are getting tend to come from a thing nicknamed the domino effect.
You have forgotten to close a tag somewhere along the way (usually a </div>) which causes these so called 4 errors in the validator when you actually have one.

It can take time for you to see where this tag is missing, but it good to learn and how to spot errors in your html without me doing it for you.

Hope this Helps,
Ed

EDIT: With these errors, it usually is the first error you need to refer to. In this case, it was correct.

Quote:

You may have neglected to close an element,

Monie · #3 Feb 4th, 2008, 06:17

Use a strict doctype:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

...and again see if all your <div> has the opening and closing tag for each of them

Cheers...

Oak · #4 Feb 4th, 2008, 09:09

Ok thanks,

The div in red solved the problem. Can you please explain the code bellow, how come there are two divs next to each other with no content inside?

This validates, but to me and my very little knowledge in html, it seems wrong.

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<div class="chromestyleshadow" id="shadow">
&nbsp;</div></div>
<!--// END SHADOW //-->
<h1 class="title">School Contact</h1>

Oak · #5 Feb 4th, 2008, 11:08

Quote:

Use a strict doctype:

Oh yeah, sorry, but what is strict doc type?

Cheers

Lchad · #6 Feb 4th, 2008, 12:11

Looking at your code you needed to extra div to either close the div called
main container or the one called capoeira-canal-classes-banner.

You should try to add in comments after each closing div to say which div you are closing. Helps to keep track.

Oak · #7 Feb 4th, 2008, 12:47

Brilliant!

Jack Franklin · #8 Feb 4th, 2008, 18:41

http://creativecoding.webforumz.com/...ips-tricks/#q1

Oak · #9 Feb 4th, 2008, 22:49

Quote:

http://creativecoding.webforumz.com/...ips-tricks/#q1

Hey Jack, that looks like a nice & easy bit of PHP for updating Navigation of <ul><li>.

I was experiencing those same hassles you mention in your news letter!

I did know about leaving notes for divs, now my site is growing the is more of a need for them.

Monie · #10 Feb 5th, 2008, 05:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oak

Oh yeah, sorry, but what is strict doc type?

Cheers

I have a busy day and I couldnt explain this to you but to give you the link here

Hope that helps

Jack Franklin · #11 Feb 5th, 2008, 07:15

Doctypes are almost like mean teachers - they mark what you code and give you grief for any mistakes. The Strict Doctype is like the head teacher, double nasty, whilst the transitional sometimes lets you off

Oak · #12 Feb 5th, 2008, 09:55

Ah.. ok, down to the head masters office it is for me then.

Thanks all!

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