Hi L.D.
I found w3c to be OK when I finally understood how it worked fully. When you
say it told you there was no end to your META tags, the answer could be both
Roger Turks mention of "if item 1 is wrong for this, then all the rest that
are sort of dependent are wrong also" or it could be that a tag which has an
optional ending is missing.
These are the ones that will work on most all of the browsers with only the
opening tag showing in the HTML. The W3 validator flags all of these as
"duff" and then goes on as above, 'cos you've got a duff entry in line 18,
then lines 27, 32, 34, 54, 90 and so on are also duff, when they might be
perfectly ok if you fix the one in line 18. In other words the w3 validator
will only pass as ok an entry with both opening and closing tags, even if
other browsers will accept them ok.
So you need <META> and </META> tags every time, and <BIG> and </BIG> and <B>
and </B> every time you use them. Also don't wade through all the stuff
trying to find what is wrong, just fix the first the FIRST error first and
re-validate! You'll be surprised how much disappears when you fix the first
one, honest!
I've got an in house validator now also, this is pretty good but
unfortunately is a winblown prog. If you let me know where the problem page
is, I can take a look with this easily enough.
Regards
Mel
-----Original Message-----
From: L.D. Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 June 2000 23:57
Subject: Validators
>I tried validator.w3.org and found it worthless.
>
>Why? Because it is claiming things are wrong when they're not. It
>claimed the META lacked ends, but the ">" is on every one of them,
>although one line is over 400 characters ... It claimed that the
></head> didn't belong because there wasn't <head> etc etc etc
>
>Could someone else provide a URL to an html validator that can see
>beginnings and ends of tags, please? When I have to wade through stuff
>that isn't wrong in an attempt to find what *might* be wrong, I can't
>get anything done. :(
>
>Thanks ...
>
>l.d.
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