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  • Gary Finnigan
    #1

    Markup validation

    I just got through validating apage at w3c org. I got 300 errors.
    But...the errors say things like color is no longer an attribute! What are
    they talking about!
    Can anyone shed any light as to why color can not be an attribute?
    And body!!! Body is not an attribute! Background color is not allowed! Am I
    living on the same planet?
    It feels to me like there aren't any attributes left!
    Gary


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    • Matthias Gutfeldt
      #2
      Re: Markup validation

      Gary Finnigan wrote:[color=blue]
      > I just got through validating apage at w3c org. I got 300 errors.
      > But...the errors say things like color is no longer an attribute! What are
      > they talking about!
      > Can anyone shed any light as to why color can not be an attribute?
      > And body!!! Body is not an attribute! Background color is not allowed! Am I
      > living on the same planet?
      > It feels to me like there aren't any attributes left![/color]

      Depends on the HTML version you're validating against. HTML Strict
      generally allows fewer presentational attributes than HTML Transitional.
      And of course many of the presentational attributes in use have never
      been valid at all.

      Ideally most, if not all, presentational attributes should be removed
      and the styling done with CSS. If you really can't use CSS instead of
      presentational HTML attributes, you're probably better off with HTML
      Transitional.

      What's the URL of the page you're trying to validate?


      Matthias


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        • Jim Roberts
          #3
          Re: Markup validation


          "Gary Finnigan" <gjfinnigan@tal k21.com> wrote in message
          news:_m9bc.1134 7$Id.2337@news-binary.blueyond er.co.uk...[color=blue]
          > I just got through validating apage at w3c org. I got 300 errors.
          > But...the errors say things like color is no longer an attribute! What are
          > they talking about!
          > Can anyone shed any light as to why color can not be an attribute?
          > And body!!! Body is not an attribute! Background color is not allowed! Am[/color]
          I[color=blue]
          > living on the same planet?
          > It feels to me like there aren't any attributes left!
          > Gary[/color]

          What's the url? What is the doctype of the page in question? Need some
          info...

          Jim Roberts


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            • DU
              #4
              Re: Markup validation

              Gary Finnigan wrote:
              [color=blue]
              > I just got through validating apage at w3c org. I got 300 errors.
              > But...the errors say things like color is no longer an attribute! What are
              > they talking about!
              > Can anyone shed any light as to why color can not be an attribute?
              > And body!!! Body is not an attribute! Background color is not allowed! Am I
              > living on the same planet?
              > It feels to me like there aren't any attributes left!
              > Gary
              >
              >
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              >
              >[/color]

              If you go

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

              <font color="red" ...>
              <table bgcolor="blue" ...>

              then yes, color and bgcolor are deprecated attributes. Body is not an
              attribute in any/all webpages; body is never an attribute.

              It would have been best if you could have provided an url.

              DU

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