validate CSS 3 with HTML 4.01 strict
Never can tell??
A couple of days ago I built a new webpage and as usual tried to validate my HTML 4 strict and CSS 3 . The HTML4 validated just great with CSS2.1, but threw a tantrum when I posted the CSS3 validation code and reran HTML4 Strict.
This is the offending line:
&profile=css3&usermedium=all&warning=1
which is OK on the CSS validation page, but will not pass inspection if ran AFTER posting the WHOLE link to my web page. Everything is the same except for that last line.
Run as CSS2.1 (with " & ") and all is well.
Run as CSS3 and the validator gives 6 errors on this part of the code alone. It seems to hate the " & " and the " = " and even the " W " in warning?? !!
Would like to validate HTML 4.01 Strict with CSS3.
Any help??
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SEEMS I FOUND MY OWN ANSWER
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FROM:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/valida...blems.html#amp
Another common error occurs when including a URL which contains an ampersand ("&"):
<!-- This is invalid! --> <a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1§ion=2©=3&lang=en">...</a>
This example generates an error for "unknown entity section" because the "&" is assumed to begin an entity reference. Browsers often recover safely from this kind of error, but real problems do occur in some cases. In this example, many browsers correctly convert ©=3 to ©=3, which may cause the link to fail. Since ⟨ is the HTML entity for the left-pointing angle bracket, some browsers also convert &lang=en to 〈=en. And one old browser even finds the entity §, converting §ion=2 to §ion=2.
To avoid problems with both validators and browsers, always use & in place of & when writing URLs in HTML:
<a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">...</a>
I just wanted to tell a bunch of people so they would not waste 2-3 DAYs trying to figure out their coding for HTML4 transitional, HTML 4 STRICT, CSS 2.1 and CSS3 !!
!It is way too much like easy for W3C to add this to the validation process !
