Re: HTML syntax errors

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:06:41AM +0000, Jaime E. Villate wrote:
> > I have no idea what the author intended with the html for the following:
> > ** Errors validating /org/www.debian.org/www/ports/alpha/news.en.html: ***
> > Line 255, character 26:  document type does not allow element "DIV" here;
> missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag
> 
> <div> is above in hierarchy than <p> and font-type tags such as. The tree
> structure is:  div --> p --> b
> That means that lines 255 and 258:
> 
> <P><B><div align="center">Now that slink has been released, I'm changing the
> </div></B></p>
> 
> should be replaced by:
> 
> <div align="center"><P><B>Now that slink has been released, I'm changing the
> </B></p></div>

Or simply <p align="center">. That <div> is actually <center>, converted to
<div align="center"> by WML.

> > ports/powerpc/inst/install.en.html includes lines like the following:
> > <tr></tr><tr bgcolor="#f3f3f3">
> >   <td><strong>Apple</strong></td>
> >   <td></td>
> > </tr>
> > A little strange, but anything wrong with an empty row?
> 
> The DTD requires that all rows (<tr>) have at least one <td> or <th>. If
> you replaced <tr><td></tr> it would work in HTML; but you really insist in
> keeping that empty row, you'd better use: <tr><td></td><td></td></tr>

Or <td colspan="2"></td> :)

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