when I insert code into my page (like font size or color for a specific set of words) from the menu bar, the software/code appears OK on "local preview", but when I click on Validate html (ctrl+D), the reply comes back that "font element is obsolete, use CSS instead".
What is the point of being able to have coffee cup insert code when it comes back as obsolete?? This problem is not limited to font size or color but to all code inserted from the menu bar.
I am trying to make my code as current as possible at the least amount of effort (which was the whole point of buying coffee cup), but it appears that coffee cup is caught behind progress, and the codes on the menu bar are not based on html5.
Regards
Ray Walsh
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Eric Rohloff
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What's your document type declaration?
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Raymond Walsh
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<!DOCTYPE html>
Eric Rohloff
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I do believe you have just found the problem.
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It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
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https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
Raymond Walsh
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the <!DOCTYPE html> was created by coffee cup; it wasn't my creation. I simply created a page using coffee cup code, and clicked on Validate and the problem arose. If the doctype is the problem, what is the solution? If it were changed to 4.01 (or whatever), that would probably solve the immediate problem, but aren't we supposed to be moving to 5?
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Inline styles are not the way to go with HTML 5 (<!DOCTYPE html>). Create a separate stylesheet for your fonts (and everything else), then put a link to it in your header. Use the built-in CSS validator as well as the HTML Validator to check your pages.
Older Doctypes might be more forgiving of inline styles and deprecated tags.
Older Doctypes might be more forgiving of inline styles and deprecated tags.
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Raymond Walsh
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I know that inline styles are not the way to go - I have created separate style sheets in my pages.
All I was complaining/commenting on was that when I use the features!? of coffee cup, the code they use/insert gives me an invalid html5 Validation. I might also mention that when I click on the CSS Validation menu item, the process starts and never finishes (it in fact completely hangs the coffee cup software so I have to use Task Manager to close the program and start all over again) - I resolved that problem by going direct to the W3C website and validating (successfully) from there.
All I was complaining/commenting on was that when I use the features!? of coffee cup, the code they use/insert gives me an invalid html5 Validation. I might also mention that when I click on the CSS Validation menu item, the process starts and never finishes (it in fact completely hangs the coffee cup software so I have to use Task Manager to close the program and start all over again) - I resolved that problem by going direct to the W3C website and validating (successfully) from there.
paintbrush
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The font styles (from the CC toolbar), are handy for trying things out, but if you're using the HTML5 Doctype, just let your CSS file provide the colors, fonts, sizes, etc., you don't need to use the font wizard at all.
The only quick-insert thing I have a gripe with is images since I have to remember to delete "border" from the code to bring it up to date.
I had the same thing going on with the CSS validator (the HTML validator works just fine), thought I was the only one!
I use the W3C site as well.
The only quick-insert thing I have a gripe with is images since I have to remember to delete "border" from the code to bring it up to date.
I had the same thing going on with the CSS validator (the HTML validator works just fine), thought I was the only one!
I use the W3C site as well.
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TomH
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The whole code validation issue can drive me crazy so I have formed my own general set of rules -- five or less errors from the W3 and and the page renders OK in the major browsers -- then I'm good to go.
I don't have enough hair left to do otherwise.
As an aside, the Coffee Cup main sales page for the HTML Editor does not pass validation...
http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/
I don't have enough hair left to do otherwise.
As an aside, the Coffee Cup main sales page for the HTML Editor does not pass validation...
http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/
Eric Rohloff
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Neither does Google
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
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