Problem validating "Strict" with forms

Hi All

Today I had the afternoon spare so I thought "I know, i'll update all the pages on my website so they pass W3 validation under the "Strict" Doctype. The site was previously coded "Transitional" and it all validated 100%. Most pages I was able to update to Strict with just a few minor alterations but I have a problem with validating 2 types of page.

The problem pages both contain forms that aren't validating. The first form is code that I had to paste in to my HTML for my 3rd party shopping cart to work. The second form is code that I had to paste in for my 3rd party contact form to work. So basically, I am reluctant to play around with the forms because:

a) I don't want my shopping cart or contact form to stop working and

b) When the error messages come back from the validator I don't really understand where to start in correcting them!

My question to you good people is do I update half the site as Strict and leave these problem pages as "Transitional" or can anyone tell me how I can validate these problem pages to Strict so that my contact form and shopping basket remain working?

Here are the links to the contact form page and one of the shopping cart pages:

http://www.sjohnsonart.co.uk/HTML/contact.html

http://www.sjohnsonart.co.uk/HTML/WC150STD1LGOPT.html

Kind Regards

Craig

That's the trouble with 3rd party code: it's often badly written.

I would just leave these pages as HTML Transitional, unless you're comfortable mucking around under the hood of your third party code snippets.

Having a look at your code and the areas where the pages fail validation it would require rewriting some of the functionality of these 3rd party snippets. Probably not a good idea if you don't know what is what.

As Mike says above, probably safer to stick with transitional for these pages.