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Neil Sunderland wrote:

PRAR wrote:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greywall.demon.co.uk%2F rail%2Fsigbox%2Fsigbox.htm
isn't too happy though...

Graeme Wall wrote:
So I see, very confusing though, eg error 6 says that /head has no opening
head element but that is in the second line of the page. Most of the
errors are due to a wrong Doctype declaration, should be 4.01 rather than
3.6. Changing that reduces it to 5 errors, which still includes the /head
'error'. I think that has something to do with the meta tags but I'll have
to read up on it.

Try the following:
1) Change the doctype to:
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"

2) Add type="text" to your SCRIPT tag.

3) Move the BASEFONT tag from the head to the body (or better
still, delete it completely). If you leave it in, you need to add a
SIZE parameter.

3) Remove the ul and /ul tags.


It should now validate. Of course it might not work now...



Thanks, I'll give that lot a try. Then update the rest of the site!
Originally composed using a set of templates and a macro-inserter. I really
ought to convert the lot to CSS when I get time.

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