I can deal with it griping that what I closed [because it complained it wasn't closed] shouldn't be closed because it wasn't open in the first place. OK uh huh ... whatever But then these messages started showing up. could it be because it says what I wrote was only HTML 2.0 ? W3C HTML Validation Service Results Arachne 1.61 http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww...Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:31:33 ______________________________________________________________________________ *Line 29, column 14: <BODY bgcolor="#000000" TEXT="#ffffff" LINK="#FFFF00" A ^ Error: there is no attribute "BGCOLOR" *Line 29, column 29: ... <BODY bgcolor="#000000" TEXT="#ffffff" LINK="#FFFF0 ^ Error: there is no attribute "TEXT" *Line 29, column 44: ... olor="#000000" TEXT="#ffffff" LINK="#FFFF00" ALINK= ^ Error: there is no attribute "LINK" *Line 29, column 60: ... EXT="#ffffff" LINK="#FFFF00" ALINK="#00ffff" VLINK= ^ Error: there is no attribute "ALINK" *Line 29, column 76: ... XT="#ffffff" LINK="#FFFF00" ALINK="#00ffff" VLINK=" ^ Error: there is no attribute "VLINK" *Line 29, column 98: ... FF00" ALINK="#00ffff" VLINK="#ff0000" marginwidth=" ^ Error: there is no attribute "MARGINWIDTH" *Line 30, column 12: background="bg-blgr4.gif"> ^ Error: there is no attribute "BACKGROUND" *Line 34, column 13: <TABLE width=95% bgcolor="#008080" border="4" align="ce ^ Error: there is no attribute "WIDTH" *Line 34, column 15: <TABLE width=95% bgcolor="#008080" border="4" align="ce ^ Error: an attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name char *Line 34, column 25: <TABLE width=95% bgcolor="#008080" border="4" align="ce ^ Error: there is no attribute "BGCOLOR" *Line 34, column 42: <TABLE width=95% bgcolor="#008080" border="4" align="ce ^ Error: there is no attribute "BORDER" *Line 34, column 52: <TABLE width=95% bgcolor="#008080" border="4" align="ce ^ Error: there is no attribute "ALIGN" *Line 34, column 60: <TABLE width=95% bgcolor="#008080" border="4" align="ce ^ Error: element "TABLE" undefined *Line 35, column 3: <td> ^ Error: element "TD" undefined *Line 36, column 16: <h1><font color="#ffffff"><B>B'FOR ^ Error: there is no attribute "COLOR" ... It went on and on and on, line after line after item after item. I did find one valid error ... on a couple of the colors I had omitted the "quotation" marks around the hex #00ff00 I've seen it both ways on pages but try to remember to use them. I think I'll go primarily with Doctor HTML. l.d. -- Learn about B'FOR Join B'FOR - B'mothers For Open Records <a href="http://www.b-for.org">B'FOR www.b-for.org</a> [Associate members of triad also welcome; membership confidential if desired.] -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
