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[lemmata]

hey guys.
i use positiontech.com to submit to Inktomi and they have a html validator utility that checks html syntax.

1.)
Is it really necessary to have a perfect page with NO errors?


2.)
Also, as a side note, I keep getting this error :

The "height" attribute is not valid for the "tr" element. The valid attributes for this element are: "align", "background", "bgcolor", "bordercolor", "bordercolordark", "bordercolorlight", "char", "charoff", "class", "dir", "id", "lang", "language", "msimagelist", "nowrap", "onblur", "onclick", "ondblclick", "ondragstart", "onfilterchange", "onfocus", "onhelp", "onkeydown", "onkeypress", "onkeyup", "onmousedown", "onmousemove", "onmouseout", "onmouseover", "onmouseup", "onresize", "onselectstart", "style", "title", "valign", "xml:lang", and "xml:space".


for this line of code:

<tr height="208">

What am i doing wrong?

Thanx

[qwerty]

The height attribute for table rows and cells is deprecated in HTML 4.01, and not supported at all in XHTML 1.0. That doesn't mean you can't do it in HTML; just that they advise against it.

One thing you could do (I think) is create a class in your CSS, like
.208
{
height: 208px
}

And then in your HTML,
<tr class="208">

[Jill]

I don't believe that perfect html is required to be listed in Inktomi or any engine.

It all depends on what's not actually validating.

Jill

[MakeMeTop]

The primary reason for having the HTML checker is to make sure that glaring errors are not overlooked - like the ending quote mark (") on a description tag or failure to close an important tag. These things can be easily overlooked but can cause awful problems with indexing! I know

Obviously, the more accurate the HTML is, the safer you are - but Jill is right, things like height tags etc., are not going to have an effect on indexing.