Some confusing validation errors on my home page

[Zonglars]

I've been trying to fix my homepage so i can validate it, an i've managed to cut out 20-30 some odd errors, but some i can't figure out how to get rid of (i know how to fix the embed stuff, but i mead really stupid stuff), like saying that there's no attribute called "target" in the anchor tag, that i cant have an input tag in a form, that there's no language attribute in the script tag, stuff like that.

here's are the validation results

if it weren't for the strange errors i mentioned above, i wouldn't have bothered posting it.

[1840dsgn]

there is no attribute "ALIGN" .

use css to center elements.

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margin: 0px auto;

there is no attribute "BGCOLOR" .

again you need to use the css background attribute

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background: #fff

That will give a white background.

there is no attribute "TARGET" .

the target attribute is no longer valid, it is deprecated. You need to use JS. Check out http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=385971 for as tutorial on using JS to open in a new window.

document type does not allow element "INPUT" here; missing one of "P", "H1", "H2", "H3", "H4", "H5", "H6", "PRE", "DIV", "ADDRESS" start-tag .

You need to wrap each input in a <p> tag. That will sort that out.

end tag for "FORM" which is not finished .

You've got the tags in the wrong order.

They need to close in the reverse to what the opened eg...

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<p><strong><em>Spike</em></strong></p>

rather than

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<p><strong><em>Spike</p></strong></em>

there is no attribute "LANGUAGE" .

Language is now a deprecated attribute. just lose it form the code.

there is no attribute "BORDERCOLOR" .

there is no attribute "COLOR" .

there is no attribute "SIZE" .

there is no attribute "FACE" .

element "FONT" undefined .

These are all deprecated attributes use the CSS:

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border: 1px solid #000

1px black border

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color: #000;

black text color

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font-size: 1.2em;

changes font size to 1.2 times its parent (its container)

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font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif;

Changes the font to arial, if arial is not available to verdana, if verdana is not avaialable to another sans-serif font.

That should sort most of them

And look for a tutorial on implementing Flash into html in a valid manner., That will help you sort out your embedding mess!

Mike

[Zonglars]

Thanks, most of that i already had an idea how to fix, i just never new target was depreciated; never said that on w3schools.com

Hallelujah! It's valid!

thanks, I ow you one... or two