[thelist] [HTML] current coding practices

Fri Oct 25 04:21:00 CDT 2002

Thanks for the pointers!

ben

On 24/10/02 6:27 pm, "Chris W. Parker" <cparker at swatgear.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Benjer [mailto:futureweb at macmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:39 AM
>>
> [snip /]
>>
>> So, how could i improve this type of website...
>>
> [snip /]
>>
>> Below are the results of attempting to parse this document
>> with an SGML
>> parser.
>>
>> *    Line 36, column 47:
>>
>>   <frameset rows="*,440,*" cols="*,780,*" border="0">
>>                                                  ^
>>
>> Error: there is no attribute "BORDER" for this element (in this HTML
>> version)
>
> i didn't go to the website to verify this, but since the parser even
> attempted to validate that means you either manually overrode the
> doctype or properly added one to your document.
>
> to make a long story short and to paraphrase what the parser said, you
> can't have the "border" attribute in a <frameset> tag. therefore if you
> want the error to go away, remove the attribute and put it in CSS.
>
>> *    Line 47, column 9:
>>
>>   <noframes><body>insert our no frames content including
>> links for searc ...
>>            ^
>>
>> Error: element "NOFRAMES" not allowed here; check which elements this
>> element may be contained within
>
> use this link to "check which elements this element may be contained
> within."
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html
>
>
> hope that helps.
> chris.