Help with validation

snappy · Mar 4th, 2008, 17:27

Just started validating my site on W3C and where I'm preloading my images for a javascript image map using

<body onload="MM_preloadImages('image.gif')

it's flagged up as an error "document type doesn't allow element "body" here."

Can anyone help me to validate? First of many I fear!

Thanks

dab42pat · Mar 4th, 2008, 17:31

I know this is probably obvious but have you got your <body > tag open before your javascript.

aso186 · Mar 4th, 2008, 17:34

As Pat said, make sure your tag structure is of the following

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<DOCTYPE>
<html>
<head>
<!-- Javascript, Meta tags, CSS etc. -->
</head>

<body onload="...">
<!-- Page Content -->
</body>
</html>

snappy · Mar 4th, 2008, 19:36

My fault sorry, the code shown is just the first few characters of the body tag.
It goes on for loads more images and does finish with a closing bracket.

snappy · Mar 27th, 2008, 18:33

Mystery solved - the problem was with my closing </head> tag and nothing to do with validation of the <body onload.... > part.

Duh!
Thanks for help though.