Problems with HTML validation..what now?!

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Problems with HTML validation..what now?!

PumpkinHead

8:34 pm on May 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Ok after spending loads of time creating a site I have just tried validating the page but get loads of errors.

E.g

<table width="800" height="600" border="0" align="center">
Line 25, column 26: there is no attribute "HEIGHT"

According to the W3C validation tool, it says I should get around this by designing the site using CSS (I already use CSS for fonts/links but not layout).

Should I keep the existing invalid code and carry on or stop and learn CSS (I've tried already!)

Any ideas/thoughts? Thanks ppl

crashomon

8:56 pm on May 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Leave height off, unless you need to have the height set.

In that case, you can try this: Set up a column on the side that runs the length of the table and insert a 600px shim (transparent image)

I'm sure others have more ideas . . . .

Patrick Elward

isitreal

10:04 pm on May 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

If validation is more important to you than backward compatibility, just assign an id to the td and table, then use the css height:****px or ****% and you'll be fine, it will work on all modern browsers. Remove the height attribute from td and table, it will validate fine then.

Same goes for <body margin=.....> just set:

body, html {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
and you're on your way to a validating page. If you stick to html 4.01 transitional you'll be able to retain almost all your html with very few changes and still have a clean validating document.

img tags are usually the hardest site wide, since often they didn't have alt= something attributes, but all you need is alt="" and it does the job.

PumpkinHead

11:07 am on May 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi again,

Only problem with doing this is that the table I had is no longer in the centre. Am I doing something wrong?