validation using w3.org help!

[snakes1100]

Originally Posted by Princeton

check SHOWTHREAD to fix above issue

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<img src="/streetrod/misc/cattitle_left.gif" width="35" height="47" />

<img src="/streetrod/misc/cattitle_left.gif" width="35" height="47" alt="" />

alt tags are required.

[tipoboy]

thanks for all the help folks thats my forumhome page validated now to start with the others, more than likely i'll be back later to ask a few more questions

[tipoboy]

howdy again...

i've got an error on my memberslist and calendar pages relating to a side column i have which at the end of the footer template i have:

<!-- side column -->
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="sidecolumn">
<table border="0" width="100%" align="left" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
$forumhome_sidecolumn_left
</table>
</td>
<td width="2px"></td>
<td class="maincontent">
<!-- / side column -->

and ending at the begining of my footer

 
<!-- side column -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- / side column -->

now i get 12 errors and after several hours searching i believe that the spacer_close is abruptly ending my side column and therefor throwing up the errors i have of end tag for element that is not open,

my question is what is the spacer_close and spacer_open for exactly and what effect would it have if i removed the code from them??

thanks for your help so far

[mcrider]

Which error(s) are you referring to, I see several when viewing your site.

[tipoboy]

thanks for the quick reply

its for my test site right now i've just removed the spacer_open spacer_close from my memberlist template and its now valid xhtml transitional

the test site can be found at www.scottishwheelnuts.co.uk/testvb

what does the spacer_open spacer_close actually do any help is appreciated

[Lynne]

Per the License Agreement, you must password protect your test forum.

[tipoboy]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Per the License Agreement, you must password protect your test forum.

it usually is password protected but while i'm validating it i've disabled the password protect right now, as soon as i get this last problem sorted then i'll enable the password protection again, now back to the question surely someone knows what the spacer_open spacer_close is i've tried searching but cant seem to find an answer

anyone??

[mcrider]

Sorry had to leave last night....

I never really even looked at the spacer templates before but it looks like they set the width and padding of the style between the header and footer based on the values in your StyleVars and also checks if you are running a very old version of IE.
Hopefully someone can give you a more definitive answer.

<if condition="$show['old_explorer']">
	<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td class="page" style="padding:0px $stylevar[spacersize]px 0px $stylevar[spacersize]px">
<else />
<div align="center">
	<div class="page" style="width:$stylevar[outerdivwidth]; text-align:$stylevar[left]">
		<div style="padding:0px $stylevar[spacersize]px 0px $stylevar[spacersize]px" align="$stylevar[left]">
</if>