Bluepearl Design is now Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

[Sean]

After spending most of the easter break working on clients web sites, i decided i would take today off and work on making Bluepearl Design 100% Valid XHTML 1.0.

Well after a few hours i am glad to say this site is now 100% XHTML 1.0 Transitional, i even managed to get all my style sheets validated also

It wasnt until today though that i realised how many HTML tags r no longer used in XHTML. For example valign is no longer used, same with background tags. I even had to recode my flash scripts as alot of the code which Macromedia gives you when you publish your document as HTML is not valid XHTML

This is the code i used for flash which is 100% valid with XHTML

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.bluepearl-design.com/forums/images/Frost/Frost/header.swf" width="950" height="176">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.bluepearl-design.com/forums/images/Frost/Frost/header.swf" />
</object> 

I recommend everyone taking the time to make there sites valid XHTML as they will learn about alot of changes that has happened from HTML to XHTML.

I am going to make sure that all the next versions of my styles will be valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional from now on.

One thing i had to disable for the time being is the toplist hack used on this site, it was giving me 14 errors when validating so i will work on recoding it to work with XHTML in the next few days or contacting the author and get him to do it lol

[wasahobo]

o man i know what ya mean, i was gonna take some time inbetween my classes to fix mine, then i noticed that most of my codes need to be updated..

Like <br> isnt used anymore... it has to be <br /> lol

[Fragalot]

it's almost for all tags includin img, hobo.

it's a pain.

the worst i had, was a whole website was messed up in IE because i had a space between a <td> and a <img> tag

[Sean]

took me ages to figure out why my IMG tags were not getting validated, until i realised that XHTML needs to have a closing tag now lol

for example:
old:

<img src="http://www.bluepearl-design.com/forums/images/images.jpg" alt="">

New:

<img src="http://www.bluepearl-design.com/forums/images/images.jpg" alt="" />

[Fragalot]

as i said ^^

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Fragalot/f3

as i said ^^

yep but i posted the code so people reading this thread knows the correct format not just a mention of it

[Fragalot]

ye... that would be better indeed ^^

but they still aren't correct

you forgot the alt tags

[Sean]

yeah forgot about that.
For people who dont know, even if u dont use the ALT tags u still need to add them even if u only add them like this ALT=""
If u dont do this your page will not get validated.