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From: smithj7
Date: Fri, May 05 2006 8:50AM
Subject: Confused W3 css valitation error
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Link to page in question.
http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/index.shtml
I check xhtml of page with w3 validator. Validated
Then I checked the css style sheet. Valitated
Then I put up site and with the w3 links (css checked by page links)
Got following error:
Target: http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/index.shtml
Please, validate your XML document first!
Line 227
Column 75
Element type "option" must be followed by either attribute
specifications, ">" or "/>".
Checked and double checked option and they are are closed to the best of
my knowledge. Is it possibly my doc type. This is a html page not a
xml page.
From: John S. Britsios
Date: Fri, May 05 2006 9:00AM
Subject: Re: Confused W3 css valitation error
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You html document has errors, even if W3C validator have not found them.
As you must know a quoted string (like an attribute value) cannot be
immediately followed by text. It must be followed by a space or by the
end of the tag. Is there a missing space character.
Here are the places the problem are:
<option
value="http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/accesstech/2004_12.htm"selected="selected">December</option>
<option
value="http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/accesstech/2004_12.htm"selected="selected">December</option>
<option
value="http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/EyeOnUs/1205.html"selected="selected">December</option>
<option
value="http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/EyeOnUs/eye1204.html"selected="selected">December</option>
<option
value="http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/EyeOnUs/eye1203.html"selected="selected">December</option>
Best,
John
smithj7 wrote:
> Link to page in question.
> http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/index.shtml
>
> I check xhtml of page with w3 validator. Validated
> Then I checked the css style sheet. Valitated
>
> Then I put up site and with the w3 links (css checked by page links)
>
> Got following error:
>
> Target: http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/index.shtml
> Please, validate your XML document first!
>
> Line 227
>
> Column 75
>
> Element type "option" must be followed by either attribute
> specifications, ">" or "/>".
>
> Checked and double checked option and they are are closed to the best of
> my knowledge. Is it possibly my doc type. This is a html page not a
> xml page.
>
>
>
>
>
>
From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Fri, May 05 2006 9:30AM
Subject: RE: Confused W3 css valitation error
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> smithj7
> Link to page in question.
> http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/index.shtml
>
> I check xhtml of page with w3 validator. Validated
> Then I checked the css style sheet. Valitated
>
> Then I put up site and with the w3 links (css checked by page links)
>
> Got following error:
>
> Target: http://dbs.myflorida.com/newsletter/index.shtml
> Please, validate your XML document first!
>
> Line 227
>
> Column 75
>
> Element type "option" must be followed by either attribute
> specifications, ">" or "/>".
>
> Checked and double checked option and they are are closed to
> the best of
> my knowledge. Is it possibly my doc type. This is a html page not a
> xml page.
It's caused by the fact that you don't have a space between the closing
double quote of your option's value and the selected attribute name.
i.e. at the moment you have
....accesstech/2004_12.htm"selected="selected">December....
where it should be
....accesstech/2004_12.htm" selected="selected">December....
Now I can't remember if it's ok not to have the space there, but to be
safe add that space in there...then it should work and the CSS validator
won't complain.
P
________________________________
Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
________________________________
Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
http://webstandards.org/
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From: smithj7
Date: Sat, May 06 2006 6:40AM
Subject: RE: Confused W3 css valitation error
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THANK YOU!!! Such a small thing! I was looking at the ending tag
<option> cause that was what the validation said. Next time, I'll pay
attention to the whole line.