I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this, but I've been working on this for hours and can't resolve it. Maybe I just need a second set of eyes. I copied and pasted the TABLE code for the header on this site to all of the pages from the index page, yet the index page is the only one that renders it correctly. When I view the pages in CoffeeCup, in either browser, they all appear correct, when I upload them, the three lines in the header appear double spaced on all but the index page, which is how I prefer it. I don't understand if the code is the same, how can they appear differently?
http://www.samaritanemsoklahoma.com
Thanks
Tim
Tim Turner
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That would drive one crazy, huh? 
Here is a good place to start.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samaritanemsoklahoma.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
You may want to change the doctype to
Here is a good place to start.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samaritanemsoklahoma.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
You may want to change the doctype to
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
CoffeeCup... Yeah, they are the best!
Tim Turner
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Thanks, I'll check that out. The DOCTYPE was the default of CC when I select NEW from blank page... I'll work on that too.
Thanks
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Tim Turner
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Well, that was great, it fixed my problem, but the errors I was able to correct only went from 40 to 26 and the warnings increased. I have no idea what the other errors are saying. I'll try to research it some more, but I thought align="center" had been used since the beginning of time?! I know they keep recommending CSS, but I've fought with that too, unsuccessfully and try to survive. Thanks for the tips... and something else to do. ;-)
Tim Turner
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Why would it (The Validator) not like Meta Tags now? Any idea? I've previously had great success with using them for SEO. Says they are not allowed for this DOC Type.
Tim
Tim
Janys Hyde
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Tim
The annoying thing about this validation is that you might get 50 errors showing, but just putting one of them right can cancel out all the others which are just caused by a sort of domino effect!
However, looking at your page validation, a lot of the errors are caused by deprecated tags and even though you might not feel ready for css, you will probably clean up the page a lot by using some I'm afraid.
As you are using the CC HTML Editor, you could just try running your page through the code cleaner and see if that helps of course. (TOOLS > CODE CLEANER)
The annoying thing about this validation is that you might get 50 errors showing, but just putting one of them right can cancel out all the others which are just caused by a sort of domino effect!
However, looking at your page validation, a lot of the errors are caused by deprecated tags and even though you might not feel ready for css, you will probably clean up the page a lot by using some I'm afraid.
As you are using the CC HTML Editor, you could just try running your page through the code cleaner and see if that helps of course. (TOOLS > CODE CLEANER)
Tim Turner
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Yes, always using the latest version. I'll give it a try, but I thought that always compressed the HTML where I couldn't ever find anything. I'll save a back up!
Janys Hyde
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You can simply undo if you prefer, but keeping a backup would be a good idea anyway and it might be a good way to compare what was changed and help you understand why.
All the best!
All the best!
Tim Turner
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Actually I tried it on my index page and it did pretty well. The only thing it changed was my list's toward the bottom.. maybe I can learn some from it, although it looks like different type of CSS than what I've looked at. ;-)
Thanks much
Tim
Thanks much
Tim
Tim Turner
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wow, got it down to 8 errors and 1 warning. I had not even heard of the Code Cleaner before, I guess it would pay to spend more time reading the changelogs. Some of the remaining errors seem conflicting, if not just confusing. CC just became much more valuable to me.
{Line 30, Column 20: there is no attribute "MARGINHEIGHT"
<body marginheight="0" topmargin="0" vspace="0" marginwidth="0"
?
You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type }
Using the margin attributes is the only way I can seem to get my pages to be flush at the top.
Perhaps there is a CSS attribute that will accomplish that. I'll look into it. That alone accounts for most of the errors left, except for it telling me you cannot use the align="center" or valign= tag
{Line 30, Column 20: there is no attribute "MARGINHEIGHT"
<body marginheight="0" topmargin="0" vspace="0" marginwidth="0"
?
You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type }
Using the margin attributes is the only way I can seem to get my pages to be flush at the top.
Perhaps there is a CSS attribute that will accomplish that. I'll look into it. That alone accounts for most of the errors left, except for it telling me you cannot use the align="center" or valign= tag
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