Shoutbox

Okay, I just can't figure this one out.

After all the talk of validation, etc for websites I decided to run my new one, www.footballweeklies.co.uk, through it and I keep getting the same error on all my pages

I have several <noscript> tags, obviously for browsers which don't support javascript.....inside these tags are embedded swf objects

However in the validation check it keeps coming up saying that the tags are invalid....and indeed i tried removing the script file to make it show the embedded object and it doesn't work

below is an example....can anyone help?

code:

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<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','194','height','210','movie','menu/dropmenu','quality','high' ); //end AC code
</script>
<noscript>
<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="194" height="210">
        <param name="movie" value="menu/dropmenu.swf" />
        <param name="quality" value="high" />
</object>
</noscript>

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Only warning I get is about an empty <h1> container. Otherwise my validator says the content appears to be strict, even though you use the transitional doctype.

Running it through w3c it says you may have placed the <noscript> tag inside a block level element

quote:

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Line 24, Column 18: document type does not allow element "noscript" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag

The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>").

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Already updated my post.

code:

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<div id="sidebar1">
    <h3>Contents
      <script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','194','height','210','movie','menu/dropmenu','quality','high' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="194" height="210">
        <param name="movie" value="menu/dropmenu.swf" />
        <param name="quality" value="high" />
      </object></noscript>
    </h3>
  </div>

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there's the entire section that the code is in.  i don't know what i can do to fix it

Try putting the noscript tags inside the object tags

yeah, i tried that, it doesn't work

You should have <!-- --> surrounding the Javascript code, just inside the actual script tags. Don't think it'll make a difference, just means older browsers won't get crap text lol

It seems to work outside the <h1> tags (delete the tags). This goes back to my first post about block level elements

EDIT: In fact, change the <h1> tags (only the ones surrounding those two objects) to <p> tags, change the DOCTYPE and it'll comply to Strict then

I've had this problem before too. Put the whole <noscript> in a <div> and I think it will be OK. Also, you should avoid using comment blocks inside of the <script> tag, its a no-no in xhtml

okay, i'm fiddling around and seeing where i can get to.  managed to get the index.html to validate as transitional by changing the <h1> tags to <div>s

is it better to be strict than transitional?

can't say i know too much about that side of it, haha