Validation help

Powderhound · #1 Oct 31st, 2006, 05:32

Hey guys

I'm trying to validate my site and it comes up with this error http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ww...ia.abshost.net

I've tried solving this problem but it is really confussing for me as i don't really understand what it is saying exactly? Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks Powderhound

ukgeoff · #2 Oct 31st, 2006, 14:26

It's saying it can't find any charset specified.

This line appears immediately before the line in which you specify your charset but is not valid. This may be the problem.

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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css"/>

You need a space between the two characters in bold.

So should be: " />. Space between the " and the /. This space is manadatory for closed tags when using a strict xhtml which you are by specifying 1.1

Powderhound · #3 Nov 4th, 2006, 06:16

Sorry for the late reply, i've been on a year 9 camp for 4 days.

I still get this error when trying to validate.

"Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 48 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication."

On line 48 there is the copyright things © or &copy: In my publisher i have

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<p class="credits">|Copyright © 2006 Ski Australia | Design and Content by Austin Miller |</p>

but when i upload that it becomes

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<p class="credits">|Copyright ? 2006 Ski Australia | Design and Content by Austin Miller |</p>

I have uploaded the right one but it is still screwing up why

chubbs · #4 Nov 4th, 2006, 10:30

i think is the | caracter which is not the best to have in the code...

Powderhound · #5 Nov 4th, 2006, 10:58

What do you recommend I should change this with?

chubbs · #6 Nov 4th, 2006, 11:15

The best would be to just leave them out, dont use them

chubbs · #7 Nov 4th, 2006, 11:17

I just checked, ur site validates ok, what is the problem?

ohh, ok, i see...

chubbs · #8 Nov 4th, 2006, 11:25

Have u try these? &copy &#169 &#xA9

ukgeoff · #9 Nov 4th, 2006, 11:28

It's the copyright symbol that is the problem. Use the code for it instead.

Powderhound · #10 Nov 4th, 2006, 21:35

i haven't used &#xA9 . I'll give it a go

Powderhound · #11 Nov 4th, 2006, 21:46

Ok.

I have this in my code on my pc

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<p class="credits">|Copyright &#xA9; 2006 Ski Australia | Design and Content by Austin Miller |</p>

but when i upload this to my website it shows that i have this in my code

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<p class="credits">|Copyright ? 2006 Ski Australia | Design and Content by Austin Miller |</p>

so, i'm really confused as to why it is doing this. Maybe i'm viewing an old cookie? i just don't understand why when it uploads it becomes a ? instead of a copyright symbol

ukgeoff · #12 Nov 4th, 2006, 21:47

You should be ok using either '&copy' or '&#169'.

Powderhound · #13 Nov 4th, 2006, 21:49

I have tried these but same thing happens. But i will try again just incase

Powderhound · #14 Nov 4th, 2006, 21:53

The same thing is happening

Is there a ceratin way i should be inserting this symbol into my code.
i have been putting

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<p class="credits">|Copyright &copy; 2006 Ski Australia | Design and Content by Austin Miller |</p>

should i have the code a different way?

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