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Validating a bilingual (Arabic/English) page

Maybe a Tables problem?

         

Dave McClure

11:44 am on Oct 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



My index.htm page is a table layout with biligual header and footer, engish language links down the left and arabic language links down the right, with a large central I-frame into which I fire pages, either english or arabic. I've individually validated all the content pages as 4.01 Transitional, but can't validate the index page itself. This seems to be because I need the height="100%" attribute in the <table> tag, and 4.01 disallows it. I can't use 3.2 because it disallows dir="rtl" and lang="ar" in the <html> tag. It all seems to work in everything except Mac IE. As we are a technology company, I feel we really should validate everything. I'm too far down the line to rework the whole site, so any pointers gratefully received. Thanks.

tedster

8:03 pm on Oct 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Seems like all you need is to handle that height attribute in the table tag and you're all set for HTML 4.01, correct? Have you tried using css instead?

Dave McClure

6:16 am on Oct 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member


Good morning (from Arabia). I use css for all the styling, colours, etc., and to try to keep the page code to a minimum, but I haven't yet found a css way to make a fully scalable page that retains its proportions within any browser resolution/window size. I'm sure it's possible. Just need to research more, I suppose. The problem is, if I lose the <table height="100%"> the whole site collapses vertically and the I-frame doesn't render.