Another HTML Code Problem

Ben Horne · October 11th, 2003, 12:01 PM

Hi all,

I am having a problem with another piece of HTML code. I'm actually working with two HTML files. One is supposed to be the frames document and the other file is the main web page.

Here's the code for the frames document:

<HTML>

<HEAD
<TITLE>Nomad Ltd Online</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<FRAMESET COLS="235,*" FRAMEBORDER="1">
  <FRAME SRC="navbar.htm" NAME="nav">
  <FRAME SRC="main.htm" NAME="main">
</FRAMESET>

<NOFRAMES>
This page was designed to be viewed with frames. You can open individual pages using the <A HREF="navbar.htm">navigation bar</A>
</NOFRAMES>

</HTML>

The main document code looks like this:

<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Nomad Ltd online</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<IMG SRC="images/welcome.jpg" ALT="Welcome to Nomad Ltd online" WIDTH="540" HEIGHT="100">

<TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#B0E0E6" WIDTH="541">
  <TR>
    <TD COLSPAN="2"><A HREF="construction.htm"><IMG SRC="images/gradient.jpg" WIDTH="540" HEIGHT="70" BORDER="0" ALT="Schedule your vaccine against cabin fever - Nomad winter tours!"></A>
  </TR>

  <TR BGCOLOR="#B0E0E6">
    <TD ALIGN="right" WIDTH="300"><A HREF="construction.htm"><IMG SRC="images/athlete.gif" WIDTH="203" HEIGHT="116" ALT="Athlete" BORDER="0"></A>
    <TD ROWSPAN="2" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="center"><A HREF="construction"><IMG SRC="images/leisure.gif" WIDTH="197" HEIGHT="124" ALT="Leisure" BORDER="0"></A>
  </TR>

  <TR BGCOLOR="#B0E0E6">
    <TD HEIGHT="145" ALIGN="center"><A HREF="construction.htm"><IMG SRC="images/arts.gif" WIDTH="202" HEIGHT="121" ALT="Arts" BORDER="0"></A>
  </TR>

</TABLE>

<BR>

<A HREF="construction.htm"><IMG SRC="images/skibar.jpg" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="63" BORDER="0" ALT="Ski off into the sunset - Fall into Winter sale, October 3-8"></A>

</BODY>

</HTML>

I got the frames document coded like the Beginning HTML book said to code it as and I thought I was doing ok. Turns out that I'm not. I cannot get anything beside the words "Nomad Ltd Online" to appear inside the document

. Am I doing something wrong? Would anyone suggest combining the two HTML pages into one document?

HELP ME!!!

Ben
Madison Area Technical College student

Imar · October 11th, 2003, 12:11 PM

Hi Ben,

Did you consider getting a HTML checker? There are a few (free) ones available, for example there is an on-line version available at: http://www.w3.org/ ALso, Dreamweaver 2004 has a built-in HTML checker.

I think they would have been able to spot your mistake:

<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Nomad Ltd Online</TITLE>
</HEAD>

You are missing the closing > of the <head> tag.

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Ben Horne · October 13th, 2003, 03:35 PM

Hi Imar,

I did have time to check out the HTML checker at the http://www.w3.org/ But, that checker is only for XHTML (as I see it right now). I may have missed something in my preliminary check of the website but I believe it's designed to check only XHTML documents.

Regarding my problem, I started the whole frames document over again and it came out fine the second time through. Everything looked ok when I ran into the problem but on the second try, I did notice that I was missing a closing > on the <HEAD> tag.

Anyways, thanks for the tip

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Imar
Hi Ben,

Did you consider getting a HTML checker? There are a few (free) ones available, for example there is an on-line version available at: http://www.w3.org/ ALso, Dreamweaver 2004 has a built-in HTML checker.

I think they would have been able to spot your mistake:

<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Nomad Ltd Online</TITLE>
</HEAD>

You are missing the closing > of the <head> tag.

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Ben
Madison Area Technical College student

richard.york · October 13th, 2003, 03:55 PM

The W3C checker is designed to handle strict HTML 4.01/XHTML or dynamically update to settings based on the inclusion of the doctype setting. To set the validator to a specific version of HTML use the advanced settings link available from the validator homepage, or just click this link.

http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html

Personally I would strongly encourage you to design your mark-up to be fully XHTML compliant. This is where mark-up is going! You've used quite a few deprecated tags and aren't even HTML 4.01 compliant.

I wrote an FAQ a little while back which explains how to begin the focus toward standards compliant code. Granted my FAQ is written from the standpoint of a PHP developer, but the mark-up used is universally applied. I haven't even began to touch the surface on every deprecated element and possible CSS translation. But its a good start.

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4028

: )
Rich

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