Inserting a table in a default...

Mar 17th, 2010 at 09:15 PM
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Jo Rice
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Very strange indeed. I look at this example that I just created and it definitely gives a lot of errors, but ...

When I look at my own site for AotW on the index page (see signature) I have all the same settings except I don't have the font line nor the background color. I don't get any of these errors at all. Only errors I have are the form builder errors which I ignore. Why does the blank page get all these errors in the tables if mine doesn't? *looks perplexed* :/ lol
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Mar 17th, 2010 at 09:22 PM
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Jo Ann wrote:
Very strange indeed. I look at this example that I just created and it definitely gives a lot of errors, but ...

When I look at my own site for AotW on the index page (see signature) I have all the same settings except I don't have the font line nor the background color. I don't get any of these errors at all. Only errors I have are the form builder errors which I ignore. Why does the blank page get all these errors in the tables if mine doesn't? *looks perplexed* :/ lol


Just guessing but do you have a different declaration on the page?
I know you believe you understand what you think I said...but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not exactly what I meant.
Mar 17th, 2010 at 09:30 PM
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tassietiger wrote:
Jo Ann wrote:
Very strange indeed. I look at this example that I just created and it definitely gives a lot of errors, but ...

When I look at my own site for AotW on the index page (see signature) I have all the same settings except I don't have the font line nor the background color. I don't get any of these errors at all. Only errors I have are the form builder errors which I ignore. Why does the blank page get all these errors in the tables if mine doesn't? *looks perplexed* :/ lol


Just guessing but do you have a different declaration on the page?


I was looking at that, and the line that they both start with is below, not sure if that's what you meant.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
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Mar 17th, 2010 at 11:12 PM
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Yes thats what I meant...so looks like its not that then...
I know you believe you understand what you think I said...but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not exactly what I meant.
Mar 17th, 2010 at 11:42 PM
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Its not the declaration because I ran the test in a bunch of different contexts and my errors ranged from 30 to 50. I could not get below 30.
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 01:10 AM
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okay...another thought...what are you putting into the tables?

Tables are meant for data not for design or as a box for text or images...could that be causing the errors?
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 01:42 AM
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When I use Arthur's example of a basic, default start page and a default 2x2 table, I get one validation error. The table is enclosed in <div> tags and this is flagged as an error (?). I also get 4 warnings (one for each cell in the table) for the <br /> tags.

The declaration in my case is as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Cary, is it the <br /> tags you are referring to when you say that "...it is trying to use XHTML code in my HTML", or are there others?
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 02:14 AM
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I get 30 errors/warnings same as Arthur does.

It's definitely in the code. The table is default code from the program tool that creates them. Just open that tool, create a 2 x 2 using Table Designer, no settings at all added just let it enter the 2 x 2 and insert it into the "body" of a blank new page. Don't change anything at all and it will give those errors. I've done it 3 times in a row and it happens each time so it's definitely a problem.

Arthur did say that CC is aware of it and I'm sure they will get it all worked out guys so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

@ Arthur: If you need some assistance getting a table working just let us know here and we'll be glad to get you going on it if you haven't already. The errors are mostly just because the styling is "old school" and needs to be updated for the most part. Still a bit confusing as to why parts that are saying errors for the blank page don't say errors on my page, but maybe I'm missing something too who knows lol. Hollar if you need some help :)
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 02:27 AM
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Per
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Jo Ann wrote:
I get 30 errors/warnings same as Arthur does.

It's definitely in the code. The table is default code from the program tool that creates them. Just open that tool, create a 2 x 2 using Table Designer, no settings at all added just let it enter the 2 x 2 and insert it into the "body" of a blank new page. Don't change anything at all and it will give those errors. I've done it 3 times in a row and it happens each time so it's definitely a problem.


There is something funny going on here.
I do the same thing and get one error as I stated before!
What declaration are you using to get the 30 errors?
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Mar 18th, 2010 at 02:52 AM
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Per wrote:
Cary, is it the <br /> tags you are referring to when you say that "...it is trying to use XHTML code in my HTML", or are there others?


Yep, that's it.

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