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**jim.thornton** · 07:26 PM

I have just finished my web page and (I think) it looks good. However, as I am trying to optimize it... I have run it through some HTML validators and am getting a TON of errors. I don't understand the error messages though.

If I can get some feedback, I would appreciate it!

**lil_cat_luver** · 10-22-2005, 11:01 PM

I think it would help if you posted what type of errors you're getting, or just post the url of the validation. And you might consider using CSS.

**OmuCuSucu** · 10-23-2005, 05:18 PM

could you post the errors you get on validation? or at least a link to the page online so we could check it easier?

you are really asking for a lot of work by the way you are asking for help

thank you

**funkdaddu** · 10-24-2005, 01:56 PM

The errors I get with one validator is that your IDs "Page","banpic", "menulink" and "menulinklast" are defined for mor ethat one element. Technically an ID should only reference one element, if you're defining more than one element use a class selector (.page, .banpic, not #page, #banpic etc) and your input

**lil_cat_luver** · 10-24-2005, 07:20 PM

This is what I'm guessing, on your stylesheet, did you define those as

.page
.banpic

Or as:

#page
#banpic

If it's the former, use class="page" if it's the latter, use id="page"

**jim.thornton** · 10-25-2005, 12:35 AM

First, the validator I have tried is: http://validator.w3.org/

Second, the error I have been getting is:

Fatal Error: cannot find "http:/www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"; tried
I could not parse this document, because it makes reference to a system-specific file instead of using a well-known public identifier to specify the type of markup being used.

You should place a DOCTYPE declaration as the very first thing in your HTML document. For example, for a typical XHTML 1.0 document:

Code:

      <!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" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
        <head>
          <title>Title</title>
        </head>

        <body>
          <!-- ... body of document ... -->
        </body>
      </html>

For XML documents, you may also wish to include an "XML Declaration" even before the DOCTYPE Declaration, but this is not well supported in older browsers. More information about this can be found in the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.

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If I go to the following website and enter my info and submit it... It comes back with ZERO HTML errors however it says that there is a 97% browser in-compatibility. Even with simple tags like IMG and TD.

http://www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm

Hopefully this works but here is a link to the results:

http://r.netmechanic.com/toolbox/sum...anic&fv=5&ft=3

**lil_cat_luver** · 10-25-2005, 01:47 AM

Well clearly, you've been putting the wrong code for your doctype.

Here's yours:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-/W3C/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional/EN"
"http:/www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Here's what it's supposed look like:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

As for the netmechanic browser compatibility results, it's probably because of the id/class problem that W3C has pointed out. For the <td> and <img> tags, I'm not sure what's the problem...maybe someone else here knows

**jim.thornton** · 10-26-2005, 09:17 AM

Nice catch on the doctype, I couldn't figure out why I was getting that error... I must have accidentally changed that when I did a find/replace for my paths.

I tested with W3C again after that and there were NO problems with the HTML.

I tested the netmechanic again and still I am getting 79 browser compatibility errors and I cannot figure out why... I have used similar coding tags and such on other sites and I have never had a problem. Can someone goto www.lowermypayments.ca and tell me if it seems to appear properly in their browser?

Zinc.

**DianeD** · 10-26-2005, 09:39 AM

Ha, rats, I just entered your page into the validator and after 'fixing' the doctype and a few cl***es you had wrong, it validated nicely. Oh well, ya beat me to it!! (I always find it good practice to try and solve problems, keeps me on my toes). Although most of the time someone beats me in posting the solutions.

Anyway, with that out of the way, I checked out your site in IE, Opera, Netscape and Firefox and your site came up great in all of them with no deviations.

Just my 2 cents,
DianeD

**jim.thornton** · 10-27-2005, 12:54 AM

Thank DianeD... I appreciate you taking the time to look at it.

If DianeD is saying it is shows nicely in all browsers does anyone know why it would show up at Netmechanic as a non-compatible browser??

Zinc.

**lil_cat_luver** · 10-27-2005, 07:46 PM

The problem is probably with Netmechanic, not with your site. I don't think you should worry too much about it

**jim.thornton** · 10-28-2005, 01:10 AM

okay...

Thank you everyone!

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