Im pulling out my hair over the frustration this is causing me.. I first posted a question about how i can make my website more compatible with multiple browsers and i was told to first validate my code.
I understood the CSS errors very well and how to fix them but when i validate the HTML i get something like 19 errors and i cannot understand the error on most of them, when i do im unsure how to correct the syntax properly.
I noticed that i was able to let W3 clean up my code so i chose this option and it has given me my code 'tidied up'. Now i really dont know how im supposed to impliment this, what file exactly do i overwrite with this 'new and improved' syntax?
I really really am desperate for some help on this one
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14 Jun 2010, 05:21 PM #1
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Desperate Help Needed - HTML Validation :( :(
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14 Jun 2010, 05:34 PM #2
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14 Jun 2010, 09:27 PM #3
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Re: Desperate Help Needed - HTML Validation :( :(
PLEASEE I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO
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14 Jun 2010, 09:35 PM #4
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Re: Desperate Help Needed - HTML Validation :( :(
I'll probably take some flak for this, but if I check the validation of a site and don't understand what the 'error' means, I don't worry about it.
I've seen way too many validation errors that didn't reflect what was actually in the code.
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14 Jun 2010, 09:48 PM #5
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Re: Desperate Help Needed - HTML Validation :( :(
Ok.. just going through the errors one by one:
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Line 27, Column 158: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "id"
…rchase.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page&id=16">» ABOUT</a> <a href="http://www.c…
Ok.. this comes about from having a & (ampersand) in a URL. Ampersands need to be HTML encoded in order to not throw an error. Replace your & with & in every instance.
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Line 57, Column 23: document type does not allow element "style" here
<style type="text/css">
Just what it says.. style's are only allowed in the <head> of your document.
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Line 152, Column 266: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "flag.giff.gif"
…031"><img src="images/england fanhorn&flag.giff.gif" alt="(England) Fan Horn w…
Again with the ampersand
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Line 178, Column 273: character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data
…c="images/calc7.gif" alt="(CASIO) Tax & Exchange Calculator (HS85TE)" title=" …
Another ampersand
I imagine a lot of the other errors will fall away once you fix these major ones. It's not too incredibly hard to get your webpage 100% validated.
Anthony
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14 Jun 2010, 09:59 PM #6
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Re: Desperate Help Needed - HTML Validation :( :(
Hi, thanks for the help.. one thing though how do i know where the syntax is?
for example:
It says Line 57, Column 23 but doesnt say what file?Line 57, Column 23: document type does not allow element "style" here
<style type="text/css">
Just what it says.. style's are only allowed in the <head> of your document.
Also, do i just delete it? Is this incorrect syntax doing anything important?
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15 Jun 2010, 04:19 PM #7
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15 Jun 2010, 04:59 PM #8
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Re: Desperate Help Needed - HTML Validation :( :(
The html the validator is seeing is built on the fly by Zen Cart php code. There's no actual html page. You might have to rename some of your images (img src="images/england fanhorn&flag.giff.gif"), take out the &, and re-enter them in your products' pages. Try using the Developer's Tool Kit in Admin/Tools to find unique phrases, like style type="text/css" to find in what file this is located.
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