I'm starting a CSS for a beginning web project and was given the following error message when trying to validate with the W3C CSS Validator:

Errors
URI : file://localhost/styles.css

    * Line: 14 Context : #65533;#65533;#65533;

      Parse Error - #navcontainer { width: 160px; }

Here is the source from my CSS:

/* Define Nav Container */

#navcontainer
    {
    width: 160px;
    }

#navcontainer ul
    {
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
    }

#navcontainer a
    {
    display: block;
    padding: 3px;
    width: 160px;
    background-color: #000033;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #EEEEEE;
    }

#navcontainer a:link, #navlist a:visited
    {
    background-color: #000033;
    color: #EEEEEE;
    text-decoration: none;
    }

#navcontainer a:hover
    {
    background-color: #336699;
    color: #EEEEEE;
    }

#navcontainer a:active
    {
    background-color: #99CCFF;
    color: #000033;
    }

/* End Define Nav Container */


If anyone can help, I'd be most grateful. I'm just starting out and this seems like a weird hangup. Also, if you see any other glaring problems, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your help.

The code you posted doesn't have any errors.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...usermedium=all



It doesn't contain those values either. If you have that somewhere the numbers should probably consist of 6 digits each and there shouldn't be semicolons between them.

Could you post a link to the CSS file?


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Meow,
Thank you for your reply. The website is not live yet; it's still on my local drive. I just tried the W3C CSS Validator again just now and, even though it's still giving me the same message:

W3C CSS Validator Results for file://localhost/styles.css

To work as intended, your CSS style sheet needs a correct document parse tree. This means you should use valid HTML.
Errors
URI : file://localhost/styles.css

    * Line: 14 Context : #65533;#65533;#65533;

      Parse Error - #navcontainer { width: 160px; }

Valid CSS information

    * #navcontainer ul {
          o margin-left : 0;
          o padding-left : 0;
          o list-style-type : none;
          o font-family : arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
      }
    * #navcontainer a {
          o display : block;
          o padding : 3px;
          o width : 160px;
          o background-color : #000033;
          o color : #ffffff;
          o border-bottom : 1px solid #eeeeee;
      }
    * #navcontainer a:link, #navlist a:visited {
          o background-color : #000033;
          o color : #eeeeee;
          o text-decoration : none;
      }
    * #navcontainer a:hover {
          o background-color : #336699;
          o color : #eeeeee;
      }
    * #navcontainer a:active {
          o background-color : #99ccff;
          o color : #000033;
      }

It's weird because this is the same code that returned as no error when you tried (the result you sent me the link to. Same code.)
I must be missing something strange and obvious. And after the "Line 14: Context :" there are three black diamonds with question marks on them at the W3C site. That's where those weird numbers at the top that are not hexadecimals is coming from.

Thank you again for your response.

 
Obviously you have an internet connection, so what stops you from uploading the CSS file to a server where we can get to it? ;)
Sounds like you have illegal characters in there.

Since you don't want to show your stuff I'm afraid that's all the help I can give you.

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