Need Help with Validation

[tharden3]

Ok, so I went to validate my website over at W3C and I think I want to throw my computer out of a window. I have a bunch of errors that I don't know how to fix, and on top of that, I'm not sure how to make my site work in anything but IE 7
Any websites or tutorials that can help me? I want to pull my hair out.

[drhowarddrfine]

I'm not sure how to make my site work in anything but IE 7

This only happens to those who learned using IE. IE is broken so you only learned broken methods.

Any websites or tutorials that can help me? I want to pull my hair out.

I send people to W3Schools.com but haven't paid much attention to it in a long time. (It is not affiliated in any way with the W3C).

The best way to learn is write the markup, validate it, and check it in Firefox. Then look to see if IE screws it up. When something doesn't work, Google for the problem or ask here, but take baby steps.

Never, ever rely on IE to do anything correctly. It is 10 years behind web standards and incorrect in many of its implementations.

[gits]

just a note: the same goes for JavaScript with IE ... IE has its own ECMA-script interpretation/implementation :) and call it JScript ... so in case you rely on that during development things might go much worse again when you test it with other browsers. just use a standards compliant browser for development ... firefox is great and you have the nice firebug extension that is very helpful for debugging ... and then do what was already said ... then open it in IE and make the needed changes ... usually this is the more less difficult way then the opposite ... getting IE specific code to work often needs a complete recoding ... and when you are ready with that you see that it nearly works with IE too so the entire IE code is useless and you just need some small adaptions ... typically that leads to doing the work twice ... so it is quite a good recommendation to start developing with firefox ... that is a kind of best practice that you would experience for yourself or could get recommended here :)

[tharden3]

Good input, thanks for the replies.....

It's just kinda frustrating though. The only reason (and trust me, if it wasn't for accessibility and the SS-like school system that bows down to the not-so-almighty IE)... the only reason I made it in IE is because my school, and just about every other in the nation, uses IE and I wanted to be able to show it off. I'm in high school if you were wondering... it's not a kindergarten project. I wish we could take IE and send it to some far off island to rot and decompose under a slowly setting sun.