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October 23rd, 2005, 07:40 AM

Micster

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W3 Validation Failing

I have been using the W3 validator (http://validator.w3.org/) to clean up my code and got rid of all but two problems:

document type does not allow element "BODY" here.
end tag for "HTML" which is not finished.

I have been through all my code to try and find the problems. I finally ended up with the following which still fails:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Not W3 Validated</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello
</body>
</html>

Please can somebody let me know what's wring with this?

October 23rd, 2005, 07:42 AM

Micster

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... or alternatively, you could let me know what is wrong with this!

October 23rd, 2005, 11:47 AM

Mittineague

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frames

Hi Micster, welcome to the forums,
W3c validation errors are easy to understand once you understand them.

You are using DOCTYPE "frameset", but you don't have any frames.
If you want to use frames the correct page structure is someting like

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>...</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<frameset rows="140,*" cols="160,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0"> 
  <frame name="..." scrolling="NO" noresize src="..." >
  <frameset rows="75,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0" cols="*"> 
    <frame name="..." scrolling="NO" noresize src="..." >
    <frame name="..." scrolling="NO" noresize src="..." >
  </frameset>
  <frame name="..." scrolling="YES" noresize src="...">
  <frame name="..." src="...">
</frameset>
<noframes>...</noframes> 
</html>

October 23rd, 2005, 12:36 PM

Micster

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Changing the DocType worked

Thanks Mittineague, a simple change to the correct doctype and...

"This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional"

Yipee!

[Now all I need to do is work up the strength to correct the 30+ errors I have on each page when validating as strict, but that can wait for another day.]

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