ROB — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:33:34 +0000

from the w3.org validator

Quote:
an attribute value must be quoted if it contains any character other than letters (A-Za-z), digits, hyphens, and periods; use quotes if in doubt

nya

Suzanne — Sat, 22 Jun 2002 06:03:26 +0000

actually, no. all attribute values must be enclosed in double quotes for forward compliance.

ROB — Sat, 22 Jun 2002 01:46:35 +0000

technically i believe, and its possible im wrong here, attributes without quotes are valid as long as the attribute doesnt include spaces.

Also, one thing to note is mixing percentages and absolute pixel values in table heights and widths is a no-no. youre table and all components of it should use either percentages OR absolute values, not a combiniation (even though they may look ok in IE)

Suzanne — Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:34:51 +0000

The font tag is deprecated. For inline changes, use instead of .

Why do you have to use % for those ones, but not for the rest? I don't know why it's doing that, only that the % is causing the problem. Better to work out the percentage into pixels.

input, select, option, textarea, et cetera should be enclosed in a block level element (table, p, div). so...

(where ble = whatever element you're using)

"Weird" isn't helpful, lol. What are the rendering errors, what OS, what browser?

Ken Elliott — Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:35:53 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Suzanne

Also, it's entirely pointless to use a class in a font tag when there is nothing else in the font tag. And even when there is. If you're using CSS, let go of the font tag! Just ditch it!

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here? Just get rid of the font tag? Then how will I close it?
Answer to the Most Pressing Problem #1

Because you are using % for height.

I have to use a % for the height, in order for it to be a functional bar graph. Is there any way to align it to the bottom of the data cell?

Answer to the Most Pressing Problem #2

Because of the way it's built. There is an extra closing font tag (see above rant about the use of font tags in the first place). But if you want to kill the space, put the form elements (select and input tags) into a table. Form elements should be placed in a block level element anyway.

What do you mean form elements should be placed in a block level element? Still haven't found the extra font closing tag, but I will.

Answer to the Most Pressing Problem #3

You are missing a set of closing tags -- and it won't render without them.

found that and put it in there, but it is still rendering weird on mac. I'm going to mess with it more see if I can fix those problems. Also I enclosed everything in quotes...

thanks for the help,
Ken Elliott

Suzanne — Fri, 21 Jun 2002 01:21:52 +0000

You really need to validate the output, then go back and fix the perl code that's generating it. The stylesheet's outside of the head tag, almost none of your attribute values are enclosed in double quotes (as Taff noted), your table tags have errors in there somewhere (could be not closed, could be a different error), and you have the wrong values for some attributes.

In Perl, to put double quotes around attribute values in HTML generated by it, you just need to escape out the double quote.

So: valign=\"middle\"

Also, it's entirely pointless to use a class in a font tag when there is nothing else in the font tag. And even when there is. If you're using CSS, let go of the font tag! Just ditch it!

Answer to the Most Pressing Problem #1

Because you are using % for height.

Answer to the Most Pressing Problem #2

Because of the way it's built. There is an extra closing font tag (see above rant about the use of font tags in the first place). But if you want to kill the space, put the form elements (select and input tags) into a table. Form elements should be placed in a block level element anyway.

Answer to the Most Pressing Problem #3

You are missing a set of closing tags -- and it won't render without them.

taff — Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:43:44 +0000

a wild guess:

could the fact that none of your attributes are contained in quotes be part of the problem?