Valid Html

I'm trying to make my site valid html, but the script I'm using uses the "vendor proprietary extension" <config> does anyone know of a way I can convert this to make it valid?

 

What's the URL of the site in question, Papergrl?

 

I use this program if I'm having troubles validating a page.
http://dev.int64.org/htmltrim.html
Don't know if it will work in your case, but it's worth a try.

 

My site is http://www.helixexams.com/

 

I used tidy, but had to put <config> back in because my links change by the number of views

 

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.helixexams.com/

Doesn't validate though...

That <config> needs to be removed, and you need to change anything that is on the page as just "&" into "&amp;"

 

I changed the &'s to &amp;, but everytime I preview it in my editor it changes back, I'm going to have to fix the &amp; everytime I edit my site

 

OK, I have to admit I've never seen that tag before... would it do any harm just to remove all instances of it? There's what 35/36 of them? Is it there because of CMS or what?

I put the homepage somewhere else without the <config> tags and with adding

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Code (markup):

in the head, I got a validation (http://validator.w3.org/) down to 8 errors...

 

I tried what you said, replacing <config> with that code and it didn't work for me... what do I replace the </config> with?

 

Or did you mean just to put it in the heading and leave the <config>?

 

Drop the <config> tags, if you don't need them and make sure that meta tag is in your head tags, thenyou should be down to just 8 errors

 

I tried it without the <config> tags and it won't work... This is what it actually looks like for me, then it spits out the 15 links from my category "symptom" with the most hits on the front page
<!-- BEGIN TOPLIST 2 -->
<CONFIG>links,hits,15,descending,type="symptom",,</CONFIG>
<a class="mainlink" href="medical/detail/{LINKID}">{LINKTITLE}</a>{LINKADMIN}
<br><br>
<!-- END TOPLIST 2 -->

 

Is that what you see when editing in your IDE or is that what is being published?

It seems to me that those codes are parsed by the IDE during publishing of the doc to HTML and should go away.

If in fact they only appear after publishing and are not needed for parsing after publishing, then edit the html page in a text editor and remove all the <CONFIG> tags. The page should validate then.

 

But when I take <config> out, it won't automatically sort for me

 

Is there another code I can use in the place of <config> that will do the same thing but be valid?

 

Is this one of those make your own website interfaces that is running on the host? For those tags to affect parsing on the server, we are not dealing with straight apache/web server IMO.

If that is the case, you are at the mercy of their poor code.

 

It's WSN Links http://www.wsnlinks.com/

I'm afraid I'm just stuck without it being valid... I really wanted that little button too!

Thanks for all of your help everyone!

 

What are you using to code the HTML?

 

Write them and complain, this is not asking alot. Hope it works out for ya.

 

It's in the program I use called WSN Links, I think it's CSS