Showing posts with label hr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hr. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 and XHTML Validation

In Visual Studio 2008 the Default.aspx page you get when you create a new web site has the following statement regarding HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" >

For exmaple, in order to get the following:

<hr width="800px" align="left" / >

older type html fragment to work, you need to use the following which conforms to CSS 2.0:

<hr style="text-align:'left'; width:'800px'"/>

However, VS2008 produces this error during validation:

Error 1 Validation (CSS 2.0): ''800px'' is not a valid value for the 'width' property.

In CSS 2.0, the width can have the following values, auto | a unit| inherit

However instead of inline styling if you use the style (generated by the IDE) as in::

<style type='text/css'>
hr{
font-family: 'Times New Roman' , Times, serif;
text-align: left;
height: auto;
visibility: visible;
display: inline;
width: 400px;
}
</style>

 you will not get this validation error.

Note that in older browsers IE treated hr as an inline element, while the others treated it as a block element.

I have often come across the validation errors in VS 2008. If you do come across them look up this useful reference:

http://gchandra.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/validation-xhtml-10-transitional-a-newer-construct-is-recommended/

also:
http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/CSS_reference.asp
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