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A lot of them are with table tags and stuff like that that I jus need to figure out, but lots have to do with META stuff, doc type and all that, and problems with the < p > tag (which I can't understand how that could be a problem)...
I don't know, I was just hoping for some help :)
Thanks in advance!
Okay, so now I'm left with a bunch of ALT and IMG errors which I have to search out and fix, but the ones I need help with are these:
Line 529, column 11: ID "search" already defined
<input id="search" name="search" class="text" />
Line 527, column 24: ID "search" first defined here
<form name="search" id="search" method="get" action="http://www.example.com/c
Line 562, column 163: end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
...den" name="flavor" value="subscribe"><input type="text" name="email" value="y
Line 562, column 110: start tag was here
...cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="flavor" value
Line 562, column 227: end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
...ail" value="your email" class="text"><input type="hidden" name="list" value="
Line 562, column 163: start tag was here
...den" name="flavor" value="subscribe"><input type="text" name="email" value="y
Line 562, column 276: end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
..."hidden" name="list" value="c12list"><input type="submit" value="Join" class=
Line 562, column 227: start tag was here
...ail" value="your email" class="text"><input type="hidden" name="list" value="
Line 562, column 326: end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
...submit" value="Join" class="buttons">
Line 562, column 276: start tag was here
..."hidden" name="list" value="c12list"><input type="submit" value="Join" class=
Line 656, column 106: start tag was here
...lves/archives/000714.shtml#comments"><img src="http://www.example.com/c12s
Line 658, column 106: start tag was here
...n.com/twelves/archives/000714.shtml"><img src="http://www.example.com/c12s
Any help with these?
[edited by: jatar_k at 7:46 pm (utc) on July 21, 2005]
[edit reason] examplified urls [/edit]
An ID must be unique per page. If the ID is for CSS purposes, you'll need to have two different IDs or else change the ID to class and alter the CSS file accordingly.
Add alt="" to every <img> tag.
The <img .... > tags should be <img .... /> instead. The error message even tells you that the closing is missing.
The <input .... > tags should be <input .... /> instead. The error message even tells you that the closing is missing.
These errors are causing "cascading error messages" throughout the rest of your document.
The list needs to be inside a <div> not inside a <span>.
The alt attribute is used with <img> tags. You have tried to use it with the <a href=..> tag.
In this case, and only this case, change alt to be title instead. There is a title attribute to use with <a> links, and this is the very time that it should be used.
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Get all your scripts out into external files.
See if you can find ways to make your source code easier to read, by changing spacing etc.
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I like to make pages out of headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, and forms. Analyse your content and see if that breakdown works for any of your content.
In one place you have:
<center>
... then a load of links ...
</center>
I would replace that with:
<p align="center">
.... then the links ....
</p>
instead.
So thank you for your last post, I'll hammer that stuff out in a sec, after I get these last 2 errors fixed, and finish up with the left-over positioning problems.
As for the last 2 errors, here's the problem code:
<form name="search" id="search" method="get" action="http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi">
<input type="hidden" name="IncludeBlogs" value="2" />
<input id="search" name="search" class="text" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" class="buttons" />
</form>
Giving these 2 errors:
[b]Line 529, column 11: ID "search" already defined[/b]<input id="search" name="search" class="text" />
[b]Line 527, column 24: ID "search" first defined here[/b]
<form name="search" id="search" method="get" action="http://www.example.com/c
I know nothing of forms, so do I just take out the name=search?
[edited by: encyclo at 8:57 pm (utc) on July 21, 2005]
You need to find out what the ID is used for. If the ID matches up with stuff in the CSS then you could just duplicate the CSS code with a new ID and change the ID in the HTML to match.
If the ID isn't used for anything, then just change it to something else: search1 and search2 perhaps. FrontPage automatically adds an ID to every form, whether you need one or not.
It has nothing to do with the name attribute, it is the ID attribute that you need to look at. The clues are always in the error message itself.
form#search {
color: #000000;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
}
#search .text {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
width: 56px;
}
#search .buttons {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #333333;
}
Try this for a start. Keep a backup of the original HTML snippet and the CSS snippet in a separate text file for the moment.
Change:
<input id="search" name="search" class="text" />
to be:
<input id="notused" name="search" class="text" />
I can't see it making any problems, but then again there is the "law of unintended consequences" to contend with.
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That bit of CSS is very inefficient; personally I would delete these two lines in all three entries:
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
then add a new entry ABOVE those three:
#search {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
}
since that style rule is common to all entries, isn't it?
As for the code and optimization, I agree, so where should I begin?
You do know you have to check the code on all of your other pages too? If the navigation was done through server includes then it is already fixed; if not...
