Validation Help

buddy

AlcoBuds Validation

Line 43, column 83: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "lightmap"
Line 43, column 94: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "icons"
Line 43, column 103: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "entrylist"
Line 43, column 115: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "zoom"
Line 43, column 122: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "welcome"

I use a Bravenet Guestmap - this is their code - can anything be done here?

1. Not allowed to have background on a TD attribute?
2. Not allowed to set border=0 on a IMG tag?
3. Not allowed to set height on a TABLE?

Total of 27 errors - 20 because of the Bravenet Guest Map link - 4 because of the link to a profile on a phpBB members on the forums which has a "u" in the link

"Line 227, column 90: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "u""

And the remaining 3 because of the above.

I've only looked at the homepage but once I can get that in shape I can handle the rest. Any advice?? I see people talking about going from a table format to a CSS format but I have little experience with CSS. Thanks guys.

Seth Brundle

1. use CSS (see http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6 for TD atrtributes)
2. prob is with TD tag not IMG
3. use CSS - height attribute is a microsoft creation
the u & "cannot generate system identifier..." is not the problem but the & is - maybe try escaping the & to &
try them and come back to us.

buddy

Originally posted by kbannon
the u & "cannot generate system identifier..." is not the problem but the & is - maybe try escaping the & to &
try them and come back to us.

That ampersand trick worked a treat - down to 23 errors - will look at your other suggestions.

Any ideas for the bravenet bit?

JOOROWNED

hows about dump the bravenet map

buddy

I could do that or I could throw up a popup box with the bravenet code in another window and go from there - might be a bit messy though.

buddy

I'm down to 21 errors, 20 because of the bravenet thing.

One left because I'm using a background image on the table at the top of the page, this image is required - as it "stretches" depending on the users resolution. I switched other background images to colours where possible but cant here. Any suggestions??

<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%" background="images/forum_head_bg.gif" style="border-collapse: collapse">

buddy

I DID IT!

I added a new class to my css for TABLE BACKGROUND - success.

Now I just got to figure out what to do with the Member Map - damn crappy Bravenet code.

KBANNON - THANKS FOR THE HELP!!

buddy

DONE - no errors.

http://www.alcobuds.com/ is now Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!

Thanks for the advice, and for anyone who is wondering I have enjoyed talking to myself!!!