W3c Validation

[Kaustubh]

Well i have checked my style shit with w3c validating service but it
still showing some error the thing is i dont understand what shall i
do to correct it i want some toool which ll correct my style sheet
well here is the result of w3c
well i dont understand what to coorect my style sheet

------------------Here is what w3c says------------------
W3C CSS Validator Results for file://localhost/C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\win.css
To work as intended, your CSS style sheet needs a correct document
parse tree. This means you should use valid HTML.

Warnings
URI : file://localhost/C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\win.css
Line : 0 font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as
a last alternative
-----------------------------------xxx------------------------

Here is my style sheet

----------------------------------Style Sheet---------------------

a:link { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px; color: #006699; text-decoration: none}
a:visited { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px; color: #006699; text-decoration: none}
a:hover { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px; color: #006699; text-decoration: underline}

..tah10 {
font-family : Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 10px;
text-decoration : none;
color : #000000;
}

..tah11 {
font-family : Tahoma ,Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 11px;
text-decoration : none;
color : #000000;
}

..ver10 {
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 10px;
text-decoration : none;
color : #000000;
}

..ver11 {
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 11px;
text-decoration : none;
color : #000000;
}

..tah9 {
font-family : Tahoma;
font-size : 9px;
text-decoration : none;
color : #000000;
}

..ver9 {
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 9px;
text-decoration : none;
color : #000000;
}

..button {
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
border-color : #ffffff #666666 #666666 #ffffff;
background-color : #ffffff;
border-style : solid;
border-top-width : 1px;
border-right-width : 1px;
border-bottom-width : 1px;
border-left-width : 1px;
}

..bt {
border-left : 1px inset #000000;
border-right : 1px inset #000000;
border-top : 1px inset #000000;
border-bottom : 1px inset #000000;
font-family : verdana, tahoma;
font-size : 12px;
color : #000080;
}

---------------------------------------------xxx------------------

PLease let me know what shall i do to correct it i mean let the w3c
say that its right..
Kaustubh

[Klaus Johannes Rusch]

Kaustubh wrote:

Well i have checked my style shit with w3c validating service but it
still showing some error the thing is i dont understand what shall i
do to correct it i want some toool which ll correct my style sheet
well here is the result of w3c
well i dont understand what to coorect my style sheet

font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as
a last alternative

If you check your font-family definitions, you will see that for most of
them you have a generic family ("sans-serif") but for the entry with
Tahoma you do not, I suggest you add "serif" to that entry and the
validator should be happy, too.

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[Jim Ley]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 16:38:34 +0000, Klaus Johannes Rusch
<Kl********@atmedia.net> wrote:

Kaustubh wrote:

Well i have checked my style shit with w3c validating service but it
still showing some error the thing is i dont understand what shall i
do to correct it i want some toool which ll correct my style sheet
well here is the result of w3c
well i dont understand what to coorect my style sheet

font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as
a last alternative

but IMO this is very wrong, feel free to ignore it, no-one will be
harmed, and some people may be more likely to get what they want.

Jim.
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[Neal]

On 3 Jul 2004 09:33:19 -0700, Kaustubh <ch*********@rediffmail.com> wrote:

Well i have checked my style shit with w3c validating service but it
still showing some error the thing is i dont understand what shall i
do to correct it i want some toool which ll correct my style sheet
well here is the result of w3c
well i dont understand what to coorect my style sheet
...
Warnings
URI : file://localhost/C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\win.css
Line : 0 font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as
a last alternative
...
.tah9 {
font-family : Tahoma;
font-size : 9px;
text-decoration : none;
color : #000000;
}

There ya go. No generic listed.

Try font-family : Tahoma, sans-serif;

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote:

font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as
a last alternative
Note that this is only an optional warning from the CSS "validator":
it's not, strictly speaking, an error in the CSS, but rather, a usage
recommendation.

This advice on usage indeed appears in the CSS specification, see e.g
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts....nt-family-prop
and this is still present in CSS 2.1

However, the behaviour of actual browser implementations has been
quite mixed, and readers need to be aware that this advice does not
enjoy universal acclaim. Some contributors would come down in favour
of simply ignoring the advice; others (amongst which I'd count myself)
would usually follow the advice, but be prepared to ignore it in
particular situations. Read around the subject, past discussions
etc., before forming your own considered view on this issue.
If you check your font-family definitions, you will see that for most of
them you have a generic family ("sans-serif") but for the entry with
Tahoma you do not, I suggest you add "serif" to that entry and the
validator should be happy, too.

I'd want to be pedantic here, and deprecate the use of the term
"validation" in reference to what, here, is more in the nature of a
usage recommendation; the term "validation" is properly reserved for a
precise procedure carried out against a formal specification.

These kinds of warnings can be very useful, don't get me wrong: but
I'd prefer them to be categorised in a way which clearly delimits them
from the more formal part of syntax analysis.

[Brian]

Kaustubh wrote:

Well i have checked my style shit with w3c validating service but it
still showing some error .ver9 {
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 9px;
}

.button {
font-size : 12px; PLease let me know what shall i do to correct it i mean let the w3c
say that its right..

The font-family issue is dubious. However, you do have problems to
correct. Stop using pixels to size fonts. Use percentages instead.

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[Lachlan Hunt]

Kaustubh wrote:

.tah10 {...}
.tah11 {...}
.ver10 {...}
etc...

Can I suggest that you improve your class names? Several people have
already told you how to fix your validation problem, but a bigger
problem is that your class names are very presentational. The purpose
of using CSS is to seperate structure and content from presentation,
however when you include presentational class names, your simply adding
another layer to the mess, and not really seperating anything. What
happens later when you decide that you want a different font or size for
one section? Do you go and change your classnames in all your
documents, or do you just change the style sheet? Ideally, you would
just change the style sheet and it would still make sense, but they way
you have it, it doesn't make sense to change the font family or size
without changing the class name.

This WAI Tip, Use class with semantics in mind [1], has a much better
explanation than I have given.
[1] http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/goodclassnames

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