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Validating - xhtml strict

adammc

3:50 am on Jun 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi folks,

Can anyone possibly help me with this?
Im trying to valid my page and am left with 2 errrors:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

"document type does not allow element "h2" here"?
<div id="main">
<h2>somem text</h2>

"document type does not allow element "blockquote" here; missing one of "object", "ins", "del", "map", "button" start-tag."
<p><blockquote>

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

adammc

4:32 am on Jun 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

i got the blockquote error fixed by removing the <p> tags surrounding it.

Still trying to work out the H2 error

adammc

4:35 am on Jun 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

same thing, all fixed!
I removed the <p> tags surrounding the <h2> tags

Robin_reala

6:25 am on Jun 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

<p>

s can only contain inline elements - they're very much bottom of the line in the HTML pecking order.

adammc

6:55 am on Jun 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi robin...
Thanks for the reply :)

Can you possibly explain the definition of 'inline elements'?

Robin_reala

8:49 am on Jun 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

Ah, sorry :) An basic definition of an inline element is an element that can break across multiple lines. A <span> is a generic inline element; other examples are <strong>, <em>, <q>, etc etc.

Marshall

8:51 am on Jun 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

"Inline elements typically may only contain text and other inline elements. When rendered visually, inline elements do not usually begin on a new line."

adammc

9:19 am on Jun 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

thank you both :)

g1smd

7:55 pm on Jun 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

If you remember to make your pages from headings, paragraphs, lists, (tables), and forms you'll not run into this problem again.

If each piece of content is enclosed in one of those block-level elements you'll find the page easier to style with CSS too.