Need help - CSS parse error

**iF15** · 11-16-2007, 07:32 AM

During my CSS validation in WC3 I got a very strange parse error in the body:

Parse Error -
body {
background: url(../images/body-bg.jpg) repeat-x top left;
padding-top: 40;
margin: 0 auto;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

This is the only error I received, however Dreamweaver didn't detect this error at all - everything renders perfect in all browsers, can anyone help?

**tech_support** · 11-16-2007, 07:52 AM

Code:

body {
background: url(../images/body-bg.jpg) repeat-x top left;
padding-top: 40px;
margin: 0 auto;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

**Twey** · 11-16-2007, 07:53 AM

Code:

padding-top: 40;

You forgot to specify units. The only measurement that doesn't require units is 0, which is the same on any scale.

everything renders perfect in all browsers

If it renders perfectly on most browsers this means that your document is outdated or invalid in some way, thus triggering quirks mode in those browsers. Your DOCTYPE should be:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

**jscheuer1** · 11-16-2007, 08:26 AM

Maybe it just means that the page looks OK with no added padding on the body element.

**Twey** · 11-16-2007, 09:23 AM

Could be, could be. In this case you should remove the declaration entirely, or explicitly set it to 0.

**iF15** · 11-16-2007, 12:08 PM

Sorry guys that was a typo I didn't put "px" on the first post I made. Strange how theres a error aye?

My doc type is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

**iF15** · 11-16-2007, 12:30 PM

I had to add "@charset "utf-8";" at the top of my CSS file which got rid of the error. Is that normal?

**Twey** · 11-16-2007, 01:12 PM

If you had a UTF-8 character (possibly whitespace) that can't be interpreted as whatever your webserver was serving it as (probably ISO-8859-1), then yes.

**jscheuer1** · 11-16-2007, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by Twey

If you had a UTF-8 character (possibly whitespace) that can't be interpreted as whatever your webserver was serving it as (probably ISO-8859-1), then yes.

Good! Probably, even. We can't be 100% sure without seeing the live page though.

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