Suzanne — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:19:13 +0000

You might find the professional version of html validator more helpful than the w3c validator, if you're not sure about some of the little details here and there. It has VERY helpful error messages -- it tells you what's wrong, and what the right things are.

I'm telling you, it's just the little details, lol. They get you (and me) every time! I was having a devil of a time with a style sheet not working, and I validated it and couldn't see the problem, but the styles were not working. Over and over, for hours it seemed. Then I realized I had put type="text/javascript" instead of type="text/css" in the .

*sigh*

Megan — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:49:15 +0000

Okay, sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to put text/ (dumb, I guess..)

Suzanne — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:25:42 +0000

Megan — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:27:48 +0000

Another question re: xhtml compatibility. How am I supposed to link to and external JavaScript?

If I do this: <script language="javascript" src="script.js"></script>, I get an error message upon validation saying that the required attribute "type" is not specified. If I put in the "type" attribute, the page breaks in NS 4.x. Is there a way to have this validate AND work in NS? Or will I have to accept that one error?

The Webmistress — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:17:49 +0000

Thanks for that Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:49:06 +0000

whoa, talk about serendipity -- I went away from here and immediately read a link to this: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/list-indent.html how to style lists. heh. I thought it might be of interest.

Suzanne — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:47:50 +0000

De nada. Only one of many minute adjustments in thinking needed to move over to XHTML/XML. It's an interesting journey, nothing has changed a lot, just everything seems to have changed a little bit.

Megan — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:40:33 +0000

You know what, I think I had that figured out a couple months ago but I completely forgot! Shows you how good my memory is.

THanks for reminding me

Re: Question about nested lists.

Suzanne — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:02:02 +0000

<ol>
   <li>Item 1</li>
   <li>Item 2 <-----------------------not here
      <ol type="a">
         <li>Item a</li>
         <li>Item b</li>
      </ol>
   </li>   <--------------------------here
   <li>Item 3</li>
</ol>

The nested list needs to go inside the list item.