there is no attribute "LEFTMARGIN"

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there is no attribute "LEFTMARGIN"

Problem with html validation

akvario

12:06 pm on Mar 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

The html validator says :
"Line 12, column 35: there is no attribute "LEFTMARGIN" (explain...). "

And reffer to the following tag :

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="40" marginwidth="0" marginheig
^

What could be wrong?

hakre

12:13 pm on Mar 2, 2003 (gmt 0)

hi akvario,

the use of the attribute leftmargin is permitted. do not use this attribute with the current doctype of your document. use css (cascading style sheets) to to the same instead.

tedster

5:42 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

Just for clarity's sake, I believe that hakre skipped typing the important word "not" -- as in "not permitted".

Leftmargin, topmargin, etc were never including in the HTML recommendations of the W3C for any version. As hakre mentions, there are CSS solutions and those are what is recommended.

A site search here on "leftmargin" or "topmargin" will turn up many helpful threads. In short, to get rid of the gaps at the side of your design, you probably want a CSS rule something like this:

body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

hakre

7:25 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

yeah tedster, you're right. i missed the not. ups ;-).

akvario

11:19 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks for an informative answer Tedstster! I got i right now..

One more thing.. I'd like to have my <Table> in center.. I've used <table align="center"> but the valdator dont like it..

What should i use insted?

Birdman

11:51 am on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

Wrap the table with a <div></div>.

I added the style to the table tag because all the text would be center aligned. It is amazing what can be done using CSS [w3.org] with XHTML1 [w3.org] .