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Hi,

I've got the vast majority of the ReelNorth
(http://www.reelnorth.co.uk) website to validate at w3c except for about 3
pages.

The problem with the pages are multiple calls to the same definition on a
style sheet.

If you look at
http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/re...1/alexcox.html, you'll
see the problem. I use <div id="int">, <div id="q"> and <div id="r">
throughout the page which according to w3c is a definate neddy-no-no. This
page has no chance of validating, despite everything else being happy.

Is there a better way I can write this page so that it will validate?

TTFN

Paul
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Paul F. Johnson said:

> http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/re...1/alexcox.html, you'll
> see the problem. I use <div id="int">, <div id="q"> and <div id="r">
> throughout the page which according to w3c is a definate neddy-no-no.

an ID is supposed to be unique to the document. change them to classes
and also consider using more appropriate names.

> This page has no chance of validating, despite everything else being
> happy.

line 32 is not happy.

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brucie
27/December/2003 11:38:09 pm kilo

Paul F. Johnson wrote:

> If you look at
> http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/re...1/alexcox.html, you'll
> see the problem. I use <div id="int">, <div id="q"> and <div id="r">
> throughout the page which according to w3c is a definate neddy-no-no. This
> page has no chance of validating, despite everything else being happy.
>
> Is there a better way I can write this page so that it will validate?

An id says "This is the one and only thing called FOO in this document." Try
class instead ("This is a member of the group of elements BAR").

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ClassesVsIds

(Make sure you change your style sheet to use class selectors instead of id
selectors)

--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>

Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got the vast majority of the ReelNorth
> (http://www.reelnorth.co.uk) website to validate at w3c except for
> about 3 pages.
>
> The problem with the pages are multiple calls to the same definition
> on a style sheet.
>
> If you look at
> http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/re...1/alexcox.html,
> you'll see the problem. I use <div id="int">, <div id="q"> and <div
> id="r"> throughout the page which according to w3c is a definate
> neddy-no-no. This page has no chance of validating, despite
> everything else being happy.
>
> Is there a better way I can write this page so that it will validate?

ids are once-only on the page - easy enough to change them to classes which
can be used over again.

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