W3C Validation help!!

Mantis · June 2nd, 2005, 07:40 PM

After few arguments with the code and W3C validation.. we (me and the screen/W3C) got to a stall mate situation.

There's no way for me to change my code to satisfy that validation; this is the code we're having a disagreement about:

<frameset frameborder=0 border=0 framespacing=0 rows="90,*">

Looks perfectly healthy to me but W3C return:
there is no attribute "FRAMEBORDER"
there is no attribute "BORDER"
there is no attribute "FRAMESPACING"

Well.. sorry but I need those attributes, especialy border=0 otherwise I get a border and it looks crap..

If anyone got a clue on how to satify both W3C and myself, I would be greatfull :)

pgtips · June 3rd, 2005, 04:28 AM

border and framespacing are MS extensions

frameborder is HTML 4

what doctype are you using?

Mantis · June 3rd, 2005, 04:55 AM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN">
<html><head>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

The code is working perfectly fine.. on Netscape - MSIE - Firefox

meow · June 3rd, 2005, 09:40 AM

So, make a choice than. You can't have it both ways.

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Mantis · June 3rd, 2005, 04:57 PM

meow · June 3rd, 2005, 05:02 PM

Either stick with the spec and accept that it doesn't look as you would like. Or use the proprietary markup that works and accept that you can't have a the fancy yellow button. :D

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webmaster2005 · March 11th, 2006, 05:22 PM

Maybe the answer comes a bit late, but to validate your document you need to use a custom DTD.
Find out how to make one here:<br>
<A HREF="http://www.onemillionpound.net/Tools/Links/link_001.html">http://www.onemillionpound.net/Tools/Links/link_001.html</A>

J Garrido-Bartha

webmaster2005 · March 11th, 2006, 05:24 PM

Sorry! Wrong link. Try this:
http://www.onemillionpound.net/Tools.../link_001.html

J Garrido-Bartha

OldCoder · April 3rd, 2006, 02:04 PM

The above link does not appear to work. If you strip it down to the .net, it comes up in Spanish or at least a language that is foriegn to me.