Re: doctype not found? [message #173614 is a reply to message #173613] |
Wed, 20 April 2011 15:29 |
geoff
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:49:55 -0400, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a(dot)nony(dot)mous(at)example(dot)invalid> wrote:
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty repliedto hisself:
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>> geoff(at)invalid(dot)invalid wrote:
>>> I have added the doctype etc info to the php at the top of the page
>>> and now the page is centred in IE9 and the other browsers and W3C
>>> HTML checker finds no errors.
>>
>> I just ran your page by the validator again, and it still says it can't
>> find the doctype.
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>> Errors found while checking this document as HTML 4.01 Transitional!
>> Result: 5 Errors, 5 warning(s)
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>> Maybe it is because of the blank line before it. Maybe it is because of
>> the single-quote marks in your doctype. Remove the blank line in the
>> resultant HTML and copy/use this (with double-quotes):
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>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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> And I think I'll add this, which is still OT for a PHP group, but I see
> it as important. In your CSS, you've assigned a font-size of 80% ...
> that is below my aged eyes' ability. And you're using Verdana. Use 100%
> for your base font, and drop the overly-large Verdana font.
>
> body {
> background-image: url(pattern.png) ;
> font-size:80%; /* 62.5*/
> font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
> line-height:1;
> /*behavior: url(csshover2.htc);*/
> }
>
> line-height: 1 is less than normal. You should drop that.
> Was 62.5%?? Were you reading about the horrible Clagnut method?
> See: http://tekrider.net/html/fontsize.php
I will take a look at the font sizes but just for the minute I have
gone back to
http://www.micro-active.com/index.php
which is seen by W3C HTML Checker as HTML 4.01 Strict and sees no
errors.
But if I add a line such as
error_reporting(E_ALL);
I then get loads of errors in the Checker.
Plus in the normal browser window I see "undefined constant firsttime"
line 5
see
http://www.micro-active.com/index2.php
?!
Geoff
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