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**Launchnet** · 06-04-2006, 09:42 PM

I need help with the following code to make it validate. This is the “Frames Page” which was done with Frontpage. Everything works just as I want it to, but I would like it to be validated if at all possible, which I am sure it can be. I’m simply not A good enough coder to do it.

When I open my site: www.openoursite.com the left menu page has been validated. The right page has not been validated yet, but I want to wait on this page until the “Frames Page” validates. I only mention this so that if anyone looks at the “Home Page” code they will understand where I am coming from.

Many…many pages have been validated, but I still have a good number to go. I have not updated my validated pages to the site yet.

Thanks in advance for the help.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

<head>
<title>OpenOurSite</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
</head>

<frameset cols="141,*">
<frame name="contents" target="main" src="mainmenulist.htm" scrolling="no">
<frame name="main" src="mainmenubody.htm" target="main">

<noframes>
<body>

<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>

</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>

</html>

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**vangogh** · 11:24 PM

Well first I'll make a suggestion to use something other than frames. They really are best avoided and there are other ways to achieve the same things.

Now having said that if you want to use frames I think you want to use the framest doctype:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

You can get rid of both meta tags. They may validate, but they serve no purpose. Otherwise I think the page is fine. I don't ever use frames though so I could be missing something. I think if you add the frameset doctype it will validate. I think it might just be the improper doctype that's causing the page to not validate. At the very least using the correct doctype will get you one step closer.

**Launchnet** · 06-05-2006, 01:10 AM

Thanks

Changed Doc Type and also had to remove target="main" and it then worked. Changing Doc Type only left 1 error.

Thanks again. Enjoy my site.

**vangogh** · 06-05-2006, 06:57 PM

Glad to help. I had a feeling that was the issue.

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