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What is that site that you submit your site to, and it shows you all the errors with your html & css?

Thanks, but does that site really work? Because when I tested my site, I got a lot of false positives.

It does indeed work and I don't see how you could get a false positive. It's managed by the people who decided the standards themselves.

Are you choosing the correct standard that you're trying to follow?

(2012-01-22, 02:06 AM)sparkks Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks, but does that site really work? Because when I tested my site, I got a lot of false positives.

Your website does have errors.

For example, you forgot to close h1 tag in the following code.

Quote:<h1>Sparkks' Network</h1

you missed a > after </h1

Also, your code is XHTML so you should close <br> tags. So, instead of <br> you should use <br />

Inside "<div class="menu-l">" you opened three span classes but only closed 2. Add one more </span> before </div>

Also, in footer you opened <center> before the two DIV's, so, you should close center only after the two DIV's are closed.
So, </div></center></div> should be </div></div></center>


If you use firefox, try HTML Validator addon.

(2012-01-22, 03:14 AM)kavin Wrote: [ -> ]

(2012-01-22, 02:06 AM)sparkks Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks, but does that site really work? Because when I tested my site, I got a lot of false positives.

Your website does have errors.

For example, you forgot to close h1 tag in the following code.

Quote:<h1>Sparkks' Network</h1

you missed a > after </h1

Also, your code is XHTML so you should close <br> tags. So, instead of <br> you should use <br />

Inside "<div class="menu-l">" you opened three span classes but only closed 2. Add one more </span> before </div>

Also, in footer you opened <center> before the two DIV's, so, you should close center only after the two DIV's are closed.
So, </div></center></div> should be </div></div></center>


If you use firefox, try HTML Validator addon.

Actually, he shouldn't use <center> at all. It's deprecated.

Well, for one, that's not the site I'm using.
I'm talking about the forum.

(2012-01-22, 03:17 AM)WebOutfit Wrote: [ -> ]Actually, he shouldn't use <center> at all. It's deprecated.

yup. Forgot to mention that.

(2012-01-22, 06:00 AM)sparkks Wrote: [ -> ]Well, for one, that's not the site I'm using.
I'm talking about the forum.

You mean this forum?
http://forum.sparkks.net/

If yes, then it has errors too.

(2012-01-22, 07:11 AM)kavin Wrote: [ -> ]You mean this forum?
http://forum.sparkks.net/

If yes, then it has errors too.

It's all false. I check the errors and they are incorrect.

If http://forum.sparkks.net/ is the site you're trying to validate, all of the errors I see are correct, though sometimes there are multiple errors for a single thing. In XHTML there is no such thing as the <marquee> element. You'll have to use JS and CSS to re-implement it. I don't know why you have a <meta> in your welcomeblock template when it must be in the headerinclude template, same with the CSS link right after. <center> is no longer available, use <div style="text-align: center;"> or something similar. Tags without a matching close tag (such as <img> and <br>) must be closed with /> instead of just >. Images must (for some reason) have an 'alt="???"' (even if ??? is nothing).

These are most of the errors, and as far as I can tell are mostly due to forgetting that HTML4.1 is not XHTML1.0 that MyBB uses. There are a few more but once you've fixed these it'll be a lot easier to go through.