Preston Elite Template Support Thread

**EC web** · 3 Jan 2013, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by picaflor-azul

See this post for the column question:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...er-of-the-page

I think that there is no problem with the sideboxes. Some like product notifications only show on the product info pages.

Thanks,

Anne

Ok, I ran the W3C Validator and found some issues, seems that putting the & symbol in the category description that it doesn't like that too well, but the other errors, I'll go through one by one and see if I can find it, says it sees 8 errors, not sure I really understand them all, but will give it a shot!
Thanks so very much!
Kathy

**picaflor-azul** · 4 Jan 2013, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by EC web

Ok, I ran the W3C Validator and found some issues, seems that putting the & symbol in the category description that it doesn't like that too well, but the other errors, I'll go through one by one and see if I can find it, says it sees 8 errors, not sure I really understand them all, but will give it a shot!
Thanks so very much!
Kathy

The issue with your "&" symbol is not exclusive to this template, but a general rule for any web site.

The template code does validate with no errors as you can see on the demo so you have introduced errors in your customization:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

Thanks,

Anne

**EC web** · 5 Jan 2013, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by picaflor-azul

The issue with your "&" symbol is not exclusive to this template, but a general rule for any web site.

The template code does validate with no errors as you can see on the demo so you have introduced errors in your customization:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

Thanks,

Anne

Thanks Anne,
I guess I really have no business messing with all of this..... I don't know how to fix this stuff, or I guess how to actually find it, I don't know. This thing shows the errors and I understand that, but where they actually are in my files on my server......I'm going to keep looking.

I guess I just don't get how to find them from looking at the validators source to looking at the actual files.

Validation Output: 3 Errors
(1)
Error end tag for X omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".
Line 1309, column 7: end tag for "div" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

</body></html>

(2&3)

Error end tag for X which is not finished

Most likely, you nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For example ... is not acceptable, as must be closed before . Acceptable nesting is: ...

Another possibility is that you used an element which requires a child element that you did not include. Hence the parent element is "not finished", not complete. For instance, in HTML the <head> element must contain a <title> child element, lists require appropriate list items (<ul> and <ol> require <li>; <dl> requires <dt> and <dd>), and so on.
Line 783, column 26: end tag for "ul" which is not finished

</ul>

Line 859, column 21: end tag for "ul" which is not finished

</ul>

**picaflor-azul** · 5 Jan 2013, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by EC web

Thanks Anne,
I guess I really have no business messing with all of this..... I don't know how to fix this stuff, or I guess how to actually find it, I don't know. This thing shows the errors and I understand that, but where they actually are in my files on my server......I'm going to keep looking.

I guess I just don't get how to find them from looking at the validators source to looking at the actual files.

Validation Output: 3 Errors
(1)
Error end tag for X omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".
Line 1309, column 7: end tag for "div" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

</body></html>

(2&3)

Error end tag for X which is not finished

Most likely, you nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For example ... is not acceptable, as must be closed before . Acceptable nesting is: ...

Another possibility is that you used an element which requires a child element that you did not include. Hence the parent element is "not finished", not complete. For instance, in HTML the <head> element must contain a <title> child element, lists require appropriate list items (<ul> and <ol> require <li>; <dl> requires <dt> and <dd>), and so on.
Line 783, column 26: end tag for "ul" which is not finished

</ul>

Line 859, column 21: end tag for "ul" which is not finished

</ul>

If you do google searches for the general errors you will probably find instructions on how to fix them.

Thanks,

Anne

**EC web** · 5 Jan 2013, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by picaflor-azul

If you do google searches for the general errors you will probably find instructions on how to fix them.

Thanks,

Anne

I appreciate your help Anne!

I guess what I mean though is fixing "abcd" wouldn't be an issue if knew where to find "abcd" For example the validator says on line 1309 the error......ok I understand that on the validator source page line 1309 has an error. Where is that in my actual files is my issue. Is there a tool in the Web Develelopers Tool Kit that you can put in the code and it will show you where that code is?
I know my questions probably sound stupid, but I'm trying to learn to be self sufficent in all aspects of this, but I'm hitting a wall here.
When it says you have an error, where can I find out in my file set where to find said error?
Thanks so much for your valuable time. I appreciate it more than you know.
But I'm about ready to just start replacing all the css sheets with the original ones for a fresh start. (that probably wouldn't help either though, lolololol)

**EC web** · 5 Jan 2013, 07:44 PM

Ok, scratch all that for now!
The problem with my sidebox widths has been fixed, I had to add px to my column widths in the admin. Thank goodness thats all it was~
Glad it was something simple. No more adjustable side box widths! Other "errors" I can deal with some other time~
Thanks fo all your help Anne
Have a blessed day!

**picaflor-azul** · 5 Jan 2013, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by EC web

I appreciate your help Anne!

I guess what I mean though is fixing "abcd" wouldn't be an issue if knew where to find "abcd" For example the validator says on line 1309 the error......ok I understand that on the validator source page line 1309 has an error. Where is that in my actual files is my issue. Is there a tool in the Web Develelopers Tool Kit that you can put in the code and it will show you where that code is?
I know my questions probably sound stupid, but I'm trying to learn to be self sufficent in all aspects of this, but I'm hitting a wall here.
When it says you have an error, where can I find out in my file set where to find said error?
Thanks so much for your valuable time. I appreciate it more than you know.
But I'm about ready to just start replacing all the css sheets with the original ones for a fresh start. (that probably wouldn't help either though, lolololol)

You need to view the page source and go to the line where the error is. Then you can use the developers toolkit to search for what files you need to edit.

Thanks,

Anne

**picaflor-azul** · 5 Jan 2013, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by EC web

Ok, scratch all that for now!
The problem with my sidebox widths has been fixed, I had to add px to my column widths in the admin. Thank goodness thats all it was~
Glad it was something simple. No more adjustable side box widths! Other "errors" I can deal with some other time~
Thanks fo all your help Anne
Have a blessed day!

I am happy that you figured it out ;-)

Thanks,

Anne