Hi,
It's CSS validator. It doesn't validate cross-browser compatability or the
logic (or existence of) of HTML tags.
Stuart
On Tue, May 1, 2007 12:51 am, John Horner wrote:
> I recently came across two niggling CSS errors:
>
> 1)
> body { background: url('image.gif')no-repeat top }
>
> Here, the coder has left no whitespace after the URL in the shorthand
> "background" declaration.
>
> Firefox is OK with it, IE doesn't display the image.
>
> 2)
> #right navbar {width:400px;}
>
> Here the coder meant #right_navbar but missed the underscore. Obviously
> it doesn't work.
>
> The thing is, the W3 CSS validator passes them both. It even *fixes* the
> missing space in the first example and displays it like this:
>
> body {
> background : url('image.gif') no-repeat top;
> }
>
> The second case is a little more complex, because logically, anything
> which isn't a class or an id should be an HTML tag. And there's no HTML
> tag "navbar". Yet. So that can't be valid CSS for any valid HTML
> document.
>
> Should I report this to someone?
>
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