View Full Version : So I got my html checked and...


ucantparkhere
12-06-2004, 12:25 AM
... I have no clue what ANY of it means. LOL.
This is it
http://www.htmlhelp.com/cgi-bin/validate.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freewebs.com%2Fu cantparkhere%2Fmainpage1%2Fmainpage.htm&warnings=yes&spider=yes
Here's my site http://www.freewebs.com/ucantparkhere/mainpage1/mainpage.htm
can anybody help me figure out what i need to fix?? GR!

Rosey
12-06-2004, 01:01 AM
i am not going to go through it step by step but the first error is because you don't have a doctype. They like you to let them know what kind of html you have used.

In your css, you have forgotten a few closing } tags.

Right after the body tag you have a closing </div> tag.

You have to remember that when you open a tag, you have to close it and nest them properly.

ucantparkhere
12-06-2004, 01:04 AM
I'm going to sound so stupid by asking this but what the heck is a doctype???

Rosey
12-06-2004, 01:08 AM
it's something you put at the beginning of your html document to let the browsers know what kind of html you used, or xhtml

it can look something like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

Monkey Bizzle
12-06-2004, 04:30 AM
after i replied to that other thread, i started going thru your code and fixing errors and some that i remember are you have 2 <body> tags, you have a <style> tag with a whole style sheet right in the middle of your page, and you have a lot of errors in your style attributes. You also have a lot of incorrectly nested tags.

Ausseta
12-06-2004, 05:52 AM
it's something you put at the beginning of your html document to let the browsers know what kind of html you used, or xhtml

it can look something like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

How do you know what kind of HTML you're using if you do it by hand?

pb&j
12-06-2004, 07:42 AM
some good tutorial site will let you know what version of html they are teaching you.

transitional is usually a safe bet to use as that is middle ground to everything.