On 4 Jan 2011, at 11:02 AM, gordon hill wrote:
Hi there,
First, I am an amateur. Even worse I spent forty years as a
computer technologist, mainly teaching computer networking at the
datagram level, but never coding details. I am creating a website,
freedtochoose.com and, as a matter of personal discipline, am trying
to make it HTML 4.01 Transitional compliant.
In working on the page freedtochoose.com/site/about.html I used the
coding to display the CSS icon as given at
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedtochoose.com%2Fcss%2Ftext.css&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en
<h5>
<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer";>
<img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px"
src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss";
alt="Valid CSS!" />
</a>
</h5>
and got a warning. When I deleted the final "/" the page passed.
This is probably a small deal for savvy HTML writers, but it got
me. The plus is that I am less defensive now and look forward to
building a fully compliant website.
Hi Gordon,
HTML 4.01 syntax: <img>
XHTML syntax: <img/>
That explains why it validates as HTML 4 when you remove the final
slash.
_ Ian
All the best, Gordon Hill, Las Cruces, NM, USA
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