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spyderco

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Just ran a validation from W3 and I had 77 errors, lol.

There are a few I can't figure out though because I read from tutorials that these ARE valid attributes.

Code: 
Line 37, column 34: there is no attribute "BOTTOMMARGIN"

<BODY text="#333333" bottommargin="0" vLink="white" link="#bccbdc" bgColor="#999


Line 38, column 11: there is no attribute "LEFTMARGIN"

leftMargin="0" topMargin="0" rightMargin="0">


Line 38, column 25: there is no attribute "TOPMARGIN"

leftMargin="0" topMargin="0" rightMargin="0">

? 

Line 38, column 41: there is no attribute "RIGHTMARGIN"

leftMargin="0" topMargin="0" rightMargin="0">

? 

Line 41, column 71: there is no attribute "VALIGN"

...er="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" valign="top">

I don't get how these are wrong. Can anyone help me get these so they make this validator happy?
 
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What DOCTYPE are you using? The margin tags are IE only, I believe, which covers some of the errors you got. It appears that your valign is inside a <table>, not a <td>, as well.

Lee
 
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You have a LOT of typos, according to w3.org, attributes that aren't relevant to tags you put them in, and the IE only ones I mentioned above. And the validator says you stuck a DOCTYPE in the middle of some of your search engine spamming text.

Lee
 
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You still need a complete doctype - yours is only a partial one.
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
is a complete doctype.

Greg
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You appear to have inserted a whole page within a page: There are two <HTML> tags, 2 <HEAD> tags and 2 <BODY> tags

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Thanks. Yes, the chatterbox was printing out headers as well so I removed those and I went from 64 errors to 59, woot! lol. Which is a good improvement from the original 71 I had when I looked earlier.

Since IE IS infact a standard based on real web statistics, what way can we change the margins it works in other browsers or to the point where it won't give me errors?
 
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BTW, changing my doctype to

Code: 
 "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"[/URL]

As suggested made the entire page centered wrong and it made the CSS stop working :( So I had to change it back.
 
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That just means your page was coded improperly. Since you overrely on IE anyway, I suppose it will not bother you, but the broken way you are seeing your page now is probably how people with browsers other than IE see it. I think you should stick a complete and valid doctype back up and start fixing the page. For the margins in the body. Simply use css -- valid, easier, nicer, better cross-browser support:
Code: 
body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
 
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If you can, consider moving to XHTML. It's hardly a big jump, and will force you to be a bit more consistent in the way you code your pages (all lowercase tags, for example).

Dan


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