xhtml validation

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abdulraqeeb33 7 Light Poster

16 Years Ago

Hi, this is the error that I get..please help me debug is...the source code is below the errors...thanks

the website must look something like this

* Line 20, column 40: document type does not allow element "table" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag

* Line 77, column 38: document type does not allow element "table" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag

<table width="100%" cellspacing = "0">
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1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2. <!DOCTYPE html
3. PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
4. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
5.
6. <head>
7.
8. <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link>
9. <title> Abdul Raqeeb's home page </title>
10.
11. </head>
12.
13.
14. <body>
15.
16. <h1>
17. <img src="pittLogo.gif" alt='University Logo'></img>
18.
19.
20. <table width = "100%" cellspacing = "0">
21. <tr>
22.
23. <td align="center"><a href="index.html"><span class= "writing">Home</span></a></td>
24. <td align="center"><a href="education.html"><span class= "writing">Education</span></a></td>
25. <td align="center"><a href="courses.html"><span class= "writing">Courses</span></a></td>
26. <td align="center"><a href="experience.html"><span class= "writing">Experience</span></a></td>
27. <td align="center"><a href="projects.html"><span class= "writing">Projects</span></a></td>
28. <td align="center"><a href="hobbies.html"><span class= "writing">Other Interests</span></a></td>
29. <td align="center"><a href="Abdul_Raqeeb_Resume.pdf"><span class= "writing">Resume</span></a></td>
30. </tr>
31. </table><br></br>
32.
33.
34. </h1>
35.
36.
37. <hr></hr><table width="100%" cellspacing = "0">
38.
39. <tr>
40.
41. <td align = "left">
42. <a href="index.html"><span class= "urlWriting">Home</span></a>
43. <p></p>
44. <a href="education.html"><span class= "urlWriting">Education</span></a>
45. <p></p>
46. <a href="courses.html"><span class= "urlWriting">Courses</span></a>
47. <p></p>
48. <a href="experience.html"><span class= "urlWriting">Experience</span></a>
49. <p></p>
50. <a href="projects.html"><span class= "urlWriting">Projects</span></a>
51. <p></p>
52. <a href="hobbies.html"><span class= "urlWriting">Other Interests</span></a>
53. <p></p>
54. <a href="Abdul_Raqeeb_Resume.pdf"><span class= "urlWriting">Resume</span></a>
55. <p></p>
56. </td>
57. <td style="border-left: 1px solid blue; padding: 5px;"></td>
58.
59.
60. <td align="left">
61. <p><span class="write">Hello and Welcome to my Home-page !!!</span></p>
62. <p>My name ist Abdul Raqeeb Abdul Azeez and I am a Master's student in Information Sciences program in the
63. <a href=""><span class= "urlWriting"><br></br>School of Information Science</span></a> at <a href="http://www.pitt.edu"><span class= "urlWriting">University of Pittsburgh</span></a>.</p>
64. <p>This website that I created as part of the class project would give an insight about my educational background, work history and interests.</p>
65. <p>Feel free to contact me at <a href="mailto:"><span class= "urlWriting"></span></a> for any questions or concerns.</p>
66.
67. </td>
68. <td align = "right"><img src="me.jpg" height="345" width="415" alt="me"></img> </td>
69. </tr>
70. </table>
71.
72. <br></br>
73. <hr></hr>
74.
75.
76. <h3>
77. <table width="100%" cellspacing = "0">
78.
79.
80.
81.
82. <tr>
83. <td align="left"><script type="text/javascript">
84. var theDate = ""
85. theDate = document.lastModified
86. document.writeln("This document was last modified ");
87. document.write(theDate);
88. document.write();
89. </script>
90.
91. </td>
92.
93. <td align="center">
94.
95. <a href="mailto:">Contact Webmaster</a>
96. </td>
97.
98.
99.
100. <td align="right">
101. <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">
102. <img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px"
103. src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss-blue"
104. alt="Valid CSS!" />
105. </a>
106. <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
107. src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10-blue"
108. alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict" height="31" width="88"/></a>
109.
110. </td>
111.
112. </tr>
113.
114. </table>
115. </h3>
116. </body>
117. </html>

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Edited 16 Years Ago by abdulraqeeb33 because: added link

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The validator errors you saw were symptoms, not the root cause: a heading element (h1/h3) was being used as a container for block-level content (a table), and the parser flagged that as a DTD/content-model violation. Moving the table out of the heading (as you did) fixes that specific error. Good catches from about void elements and from about unclosed headings — those are the kinds of mistakes that cascade into the “table here” message.

Quick checklist to avoid this class of validation problems:

Fix the first error the validator reports and revalidate — many later errors are caused by one bad nesting.
Ensure proper nesting: inline/phrasing content belongs inside headings; block elements (tables, divs, sections) must sit outside them.
In XHTML, void elements must be self-closed and element/attribute names are case-sensitive; attribute values must be quoted and must not contain raw tags.
Decide your delivery type: if you serve pages as application/xhtml+xml you must produce well-formed XML (you can keep the XML prolog); if you serve as text/html omit the XML prolog or use HTML5’s simpler <!DOCTYPE html>.

A modern, validator-friendly replacement for table-based navigation is semantic markup plus CSS. For example:

<header>
  <h1>Site title</h1>
  <nav>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="education.html">Education</a></li>
      <li><a href="projects.html">Projects</a></li>
    </ul>
  </nav>
</header>

nav ul { list-style:none; margin:0; padding:0; display:flex; gap:.5rem; }

Final tips: remove presentational attributes like width/align in favor of CSS, keep alt text meaningful, and run the W3C validator after each round of fixes. The thread fixes noted by , , and are exactly the right steps — once nesting and void-element rules are respected, validation will be straightforward.

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ko ko 97 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

I don't know exactly what your problem is. But your code was not valid.

<link></link>
<img></img>
<br></br>
<hr></hr>

From above, they are non-close tags. You must use

<link />
<img />
<br />
<hr />

The input tag has no close tag too. Fix these and validate again. And why did you insert table into the heading tag.
The heading tag was text container, not element container.
You should use DIV.
Fix the above error and try again. If not you success, post here..
Good luck..

sangeeta_ratha 0 Newbie Poster

16 Years Ago

hello,
i went through your code in detail and observed that you haven't closed the h1 and h3 tags. that is the reason you get the error message.
also the doctype declaration doesnt need an xml processing instruction at the start so remove the first line from your html code that declares the xml version.

always check your code for tags that are not closed and follow the web standards according to the doctype declaration.

hope this helps.

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abdulraqeeb33 7 Light Poster · Answer 1 · 2010-02-03T00:35:24+00:00

Thanks... I got the error fixed..I was keeping the table in the h3 field.. i used a div instead

hello,
i went through your code in detail and observed that you haven't closed the h1 and h3 tags. that is the reason you get the error message.
also the doctype declaration doesnt need an xml processing instruction at the start so remove the first line from your html code that declares the xml version.
always check your code for tags that are not closed and follow the web standards according to the doctype declaration.
hope this helps.

seodomainnames 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 2 · 2010-05-24T01:39:06+00:00

Yup, saw it too. Glad you got it fixed.

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Netprof 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 3 · 2010-05-24T06:44:33+00:00

Good thing you have figured your problem out but i suggest for future refernce not to use tables Divs make the layout much more simpiler and easier to edit.

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