HTML validation help

**wen_laat** · 01-31-2005, 05:08 PM

I don't know if this is the correct forum for this question, but I didn't know where else to put it.

I've been working on my html validation, because I never really paid attention to it, until I started to use Firefox and Safari, and I really want to have a validated html code.

Well, I went from over 70-80(!) errors to 2. I'm kinda happy with that, but 2 is still too much. I've tried everything to correct these 2 errors, but nothing works, so I'm hoping someone here can help me.

Here's the link with the errors and my url:
Validation Page

**paulhiles** · 01-31-2005, 06:46 PM

First error is easiest to fix...
you have two body tags! :o)

Originally Posted by W3C Validator

21: <body>
22: <body bgcolor="#F9E5F1">

**rivux** · 01-31-2005, 06:48 PM

You have two body tags, you need to remove one of them.

Code:

<body>
<body bgcolor="#F9E5F1">

**rivux** · 01-31-2005, 06:48 PM

haha sorry paul, was posted the same time as you.

**paulhiles** · 01-31-2005, 06:50 PM

LOL!! Think we collided mid-air! I felt some sort of collision anyway! :o)

**paulhiles** · 01-31-2005, 06:55 PM

Error number two...
Line 26: Try this.....

<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#F5AFD5" height="90" width="750">[img]Websitepics/bannner.png[/img]</td></tr>

An alternate solution might be to use CSS to load the background image, and might save you a few bytes. Are you using the same image for each page header?

Paul

**wen_laat** · 02-01-2005, 05:03 AM

thanks so much you guys, my page is now valid! How would I use CSS to load the background image? I'm using the same one for every page.

Another thing, before the page was validated (and had loads of errors), the page looked perfect in IE; the text was aligned to the left. In Firefox it was a bit different; it was centralized. Now with the valid html it looks perfect in Firefox and in IE it looks like it was before with Firefox. (hope this makes sense) How is this possible?

**Sanjo** · 02-01-2005, 01:41 PM

Looks like you've gotten everything taken care of.

You are quick!

**wen_laat** · 02-02-2005, 05:48 PM

Thanks you guys!

you know what's strange; in IE my pages look crappy when validated and they look perfect in Firefox/Safari, whilst this first was the other way around. Does IE just not accept the html?

**paulhiles** · 02-02-2005, 06:37 PM

Hi wen_laat,

try using the following as your style.css

/* Stylesheet for TypicalDutchStuff */
a:link {
color:#333333;
text-decoration:none;
}
a:visited {
color:#333333;
text-decoration:none;
}
a:active {
color:#333333;
text-decoration:none;
}
a:hover {
color:#FF4040;
text-decoration:none;
}

body, tr, p, td {
font-size:8pt;
font-family:verdana;
color:#000000;
}

.heading {
text-align:center;
font-size:9pt;
font-family:verdana;
font-weight:bold;
color:#000000;
}

I noticed you have some code comments and <style> tags that are causing some discrepancies between the Firefox view and IE. Check and debug any differences after you've uploaded this modified stylesheet.

Paul

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