xHTML Validation

|Show| · 22 Jan 2007 at 19:28

Right, i've tried every way i can find to get a valid xhtml style sheet link.

i've tried -

Code:

<style href="show.css"  rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="show.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

and i think there was another.
so far from the W3 validator it seems that xhtml doesn't like the href with the link and style tags but i can't seem to find anything to say what else to use.

been using the following site for reference -
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/styles.html#h-14.3

Vulcan · 22 Jan 2007 at 19:32

You are not ending the tag.

<link href="show.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Should be:

<link href="show.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

(Notice the slash on the end.)

|Show| · 23 Jan 2007 at 00:45

ah yeah i forgot that in the original post...but i was ending the tags with /> and </style>

i've ended them okay...it just doesn't take them :confused:

unwashed potato! · 23 Jan 2007 at 01:12

is it that your stylesheet isn't validating? not the link?

|Show| · 23 Jan 2007 at 01:35

good point

i get the following -
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.marksweb.co.uk/show.css

i don't really know what family Trebuchet MS belongs do :confused:

furnace · 23 Jan 2007 at 02:23

In your CSS, you have

font: "Trebuchet MS"

You should do this:

font-family : Trebuchet MS, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif ;

That way, if a user doesn't have Trebuchet, it'll use Arial, else Verdana, else sans-serif type fonts.

That should clear up your validation problems..

|Show| · 23 Jan 2007 at 02:42

yeah thanks, CSS is now fully valid.

but now i still have all these errors, many of which i don't understand -
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline

blighter · 23 Jan 2007 at 03:01

to solve the first problem, check your code, you need a <HEAD> or you need to remove a </HEAD>

Dj_Jestar · 23 Jan 2007 at 03:10

Every man needs good head.