Help fix this conditional (easy for coders)

[mathforum]

Hi,

I want to have an ad only display on a certain forum so I am using this format.

In the SHOWTHREAD template, right below my Google ads I put:

<if condition="$forumid == 6">
<a href="www.calculus7.com" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.mathhelpforum.com/math-help/images/possad2.jpg" border="0" ></a>

Nothing is showing up. Why?

[Speysider]

You did not complete the code.

It should read this:

<if condition="$forumid == 6">
<a href="www.calculus7.com" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.mathhelpforum.com/math-help/images/possad2
.jpg" border="0" ></a></img>
</if>

[Lynne]

Do not add an </img> tag as there is not such thing as an </img> tag. You image tag, however, should be changed to look like this:

<img src="http://www.mathhelpforum.com/math-help/images/possad2.jpg" border="0" alt='' />

[mathforum]

Thanks you two! It works now

[Speysider]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Do not add an </img> tag as there is not such thing as an </img> tag. You image tag, however, should be changed to look like this:

<img src="http://www.mathhelpforum.com/math-help/images/possad2.jpg" border="0" alt='' />

Yes there is. Don't state such things that are true.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Speysider

Yes there is. Don't state such things that are true.

Really? And how well does your site validate when using an </img>?

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards

13.2 Including an image: the IMG element

......
Start tag: required, End tag: forbidden

Forbidden is a pretty strong word, I think.

[Speysider]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Really? And how well does your site validate when using an </img>?

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards

Forbidden is a pretty strong word, I think.

Just exactly like the img BBCode, it displays the image.

[HMBeaty]

BB Code and HTML are 2 totally different types of code. Yes, there is a closing img tag for bb code, but there isn't for html. If you have a closing img tag in html, your code is not valid. Any html image tag should look like:

<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/image.gif" border="0" alt="" />

and where the /> is, is where it closes the image tag for html

[Speysider]

So why does the code work when I use </img>? It's always worked for me.

[HMBeaty]

It will still work, but if you try and validate it through something like this, it will probably come out as forbidden or not closed properly