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Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:49 pm**

I'm wanting to use DHTML Menu Builder to create fly-out menus for our
website. I'm trying to make sure our pages are valid and working with the
AOL browser, etc. I'm using the validation sites listed in the SS Help
pages. (http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator or http://validator.w3.org).

They are giving my test page bad grades. I decide to just test our current
homepage. Very bad. I create a new test page based on a built-in template
and still get bad grades.

Test Page: http://www.swtrading.net/zzJJTest2.html using the Mondrian Theme
template.

Any advice?

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:13 pm**

Took a look at your website with Opera - your fly-out menu is coming out
behind the flash object.

In regard to the HTML validation - there are some problems with the
Shopsite templates. You probably should comment out the minicart include
and the insertion point in your template before running the validator.
(The javascript in the minicart is not pertinent to the HTML validation)

There seems to be some sort of issue with </head> tag and the <body> tag
appears to cause problems because it shows up as:

<bod
y>
(at least with the rounded template)

I chose to ignore these errors.

(I'm not sure if the following applies to your pages, but it's the kind of
thing you should be looking out for)
I put some <hr> 's in the Link Text field. Shopsite inserts a and
 around whatever is placed in the field. The small tag is an
'inline' tag and the <hr> tag is a block tag. HTML specs don't allow a
block tag within an inline tag. If you're going to play any games in a
Link Text field you should do this:


your desired code


(Note to Shopsite: it would be helpful if the 'blind' tags were
displayed around the text insertion boxes on the page and product edit
pages)

Anyway, if you work through each of the HTML spec violations you should be
able to adjust the template to get compliant HTML.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:49:17 -0600, NuQ <nuq@34543544.com> wrote:

I'm wanting to use DHTML Menu Builder to create fly-out menus for our
website. I'm trying to make sure our pages are valid and working with
the
AOL browser, etc. I'm using the validation sites listed in the SS Help
pages. (http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator or
http://validator.w3.org).

They are giving my test page bad grades. I decide to just test our
current
homepage. Very bad. I create a new test page based on a built-in
template
[snip]

Posted: **Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:19 pm**

Thanks for the help, David - and the alert about Opera!

"David" <someotherdavid@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:opr2nuo5z3r1stul@news.shopsite.com...

Took a look at your website with Opera - your fly-out menu is coming out
behind the flash object.

In regard to the HTML validation - there are some problems with the
Shopsite templates. You probably should comment out the minicart include
and the insertion point in your template before running the validator.
(The javascript in the minicart is not pertinent to the HTML validation)

There seems to be some sort of issue with </head> tag and the <body> tag
appears to cause problems because it shows up as:

bod
y
(at least with the rounded template)

I chose to ignore these errors.

(I'm not sure if the following applies to your pages, but it's the kind of
thing you should be looking out for)
I put some <hr> 's in the Link Text field. Shopsite inserts a and
/small> around whatever is placed in the field. The small tag is an
'inline' tag and the <hr> tag is a block tag. HTML specs don't allow a
block tag within an inline tag. If you're going to play any games in a
Link Text field you should do this:

/small
your desired code
small

(Note to Shopsite: it would be helpful if the 'blind' tags were
displayed around the text insertion boxes on the page and product edit
pages)

Anyway, if you work through each of the HTML spec violations you should be
able to adjust the template to get compliant HTML.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:49:17 -0600, NuQ <nuq@34543544.com> wrote:

I'm wanting to use DHTML Menu Builder to create fly-out menus for our
website. I'm trying to make sure our pages are valid and working with
the
AOL browser, etc. I'm using the validation sites listed in the SS Help
pages. (http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator or
http://validator.w3.org).

They are giving my test page bad grades. I decide to just test our
current
homepage. Very bad. I create a new test page based on a built-in
template
[snip]

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