I went to W3C.org to check some pages i made for validation, when i tried validating the CSS file i made it gave me this. I dont think its an error because it printed all of my code back and said valid CSS, but whats this mean?

To work as intended, your CSS style sheet needs a correct document parse tree. This means you should use valid HTML.

The CSS i had was:

body{
	background-attachment: fixed;
        background-image: URL(images/bars.gif);

	
          }

		
		
		table.main{
		position: absolute;
		top: 10px;
		width: 100%;
		height: 500px;
		border: 0px;
		}

		P.riverview
		{
		font-family:  Castellar, Engravers MT, Monotype Corsiva;
		font-size: 20pt;
		color: Black;
		position: relative;
		top: 5px;
		left: 5px;
		z-index: 2
		}

		P.success
		{
		font-family:  Castellar, Engravers MT, Monotype Corsiva;
		font-size: xx-large;
		font-weight: bold;
		color: Black;
		position: relative;
		top: 5px;
		left: 5px;
		text-align: center;
		z-index: 2
		}
		
		a:link,a:visited,a:hover{
		color: #000000;
		text-decoration: none;
		}

		a:visited{
                color: #000000;
                }

		a:hover{
                color: #000000;
                }

Your z-index: 2 in p.success has no ; to end it.

That would cause the validation to fail.

Also, make sure you validate your HTML before validating your CSS

Is your CSS online, or on your local machine? I get the same problem when I try to validate from my machine. Just upload it to your website, then try to validate it.


Hope it helps,
Micah

It's not an error, it's more of a warning. It's just telling that although your CSS is fine, you could run into some problems if the HTML Documnt it's attached to isn't valid.

from everything i gather my HTML is fine. The only errors i get when validating that is from the javascript at the begining and the onblur in my text fields. Should the validator find valid javascript or is this a normal thing?

If its a CSS validator, it will interperate JS as invalid CSS.

Remoe all text apart from CSS stuff, place it in a seperate .CSS file and validate. If it passes you know its fine and can place it back in your file with the JS etc.