xhtml newbie question

[mplbm]

I've just started to use VS 2005 and am trying to make an old project XHTML compliant. What is the replacement for the attributes bgcolor and width, and the element font? Are they meant to be replaced by CSS?


Thanks,

Mike

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

"bgcolor" and "font", yes. "width" - it depends on the element in question.

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[mplbm]

The elements I am using "width" with in the project are td and table.


Thanks,

Mike

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Then try validating yor pages. If they return error-free, then you know those are valid properties. If they error, you know they are not OK.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

P.S. You can find an HTML / XHTML validator here:

http://validator.w3.org/

and a CSS validator here:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Hope this helps,
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[mplbm]

According to the validator in VS 2005, width is no longer a valid attribute for <td>. What do you need to use instead?


Thanks,

Mike

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Try using CSS instead:

<td style="width:100px;">

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[mplbm]

This doesn't seem a very useful step forward for HTML, if this is how you are now supposed to set td width...it's not something you would want to put in a css file because you could have many td's all with different widths on just one page. Why is it necessary to use style="width:100px;" instead of width="100px"? Anyhow, thanks for your help!


Cheers,

Mike

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Are you using a table for layout, or to show tabular data? If the former, then maybe you shouldn't be using tables anyway.

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[ca8msm]

it's not something you would want to put in a css file because you could have many td's all with different widths on just one page

But if you created a class for each width, you could assign the class to the td tag. Any changes to this class would instantly be reflected throughout the whole site.


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[mplbm]

I'm using tables for layout...I know I should eventually learn how to do the layout in CSS, but at the moment I have too many other new things to learn...


Thanks,

Mike

 

[Foamcow]

Why is it necessary to use style="width:100px;" instead of width="100px"?

Because the aim of these "refinements" to HTML and related technologies is to completely separate the content from the way it's presented. If you remove the styling info from an HTML document it becomes much easier to reuse the content for other devices/media etc.

HTML should be used to define the structure of a document and not how it looks.


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[Vragabond]

You could also try and use the <col> tag. That might be up your alley.