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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Some things: [ulist] * Your system identifier should be http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/[b]strict[/b].dtd * Don't use class attribute values or elements reflecting the style of the element (class="sidebar", center, font [as alredy been said]) * You're mixing HTML and XHTML (<br /> ) * WIDTH="192px" is erroneous - remove "px" * You're using BLOCKQUOTE to indent stuff (or so it looks) * You're using STRONG for what probably should be marked up as headings [/ulist][quote]The doctype tells the browser how to interpret your code, based on the definition provided in the doctype declaration via the url.[/quote]In practice - no. [quote]The <font> tag is a purely stylistic tag. It is a deprecated element (meaning the w3c themsleves say 'don't use this anymore').[/quote]The "funny" thing is that the face attribute were introduced in HTML 4, and immediately deprecated. I don't have a clue about the logic behind that. [quote]Perhaps we'll even move you up from HTML 4.0 to XHTML 1.0[/quote]Why? [small](Edited by [internallink=2269]HZR[/internallink] on 05-28-2004 21:17)[/small] Loading...
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