I Feel So Validated
December 30th, 2001After about five hours of work, about seven of the pages on this little site validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional. The only problem is that one of the sites that I link to has non-valid characters in the URL. It is a site about cleanliness, too, which is a very special topic for me. Sigh.
The style sheet validates as CSS version 2. That is a whole kind of clean in itself.
Here is a little tip about database-driven sites and standards-compliant markup. Donít outsmart yourself by wrapping lenghty output inside tags. At least not when that output contains markup. I have it set up so that my log entries are surrounded by paragraph tags.
This is OK as long as I remember to not use a close paragraph when I enter a log. It is not OK for entries that end in something other than a paragraph. Some of my logs end in a block quote or a list. When that happens, the result is a junk close p tag.
I did something to make the site validate, but it is ugly and will bug me until I fix it. Can you guess what it is?