Validation problems

Williebee

05-17-2010, 06:38 PM

I have managed to get all my pages validated with xhtml 1.0 strict, which pleased me.

Now I wanted to add the free recycle widget, obtained from Recyclenow

The code they supply is

<object width="170" height="545"><param name="movie" value="http://www.recyclenow.com/swf/recyclenow_08/SidebarWidget.swf"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
<param name="flashvars" value="widgetBackgroundColor=FFFFFF"></param><embed src="http://www.recyclenow.com/swf/recyclenow_08/SidebarWidget.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" width="170" height="545" flashVars="widgetBackgroundColor=FFFFFF"></embed><p>Find out what you can recycle at <a href="http://www.recyclenow.com">Recyclenow</a></p></object>

However, this causes severel errors to appear when I try to validate the page.

Is there anything I can do ?

effpeetee

05-17-2010, 08:10 PM

We need to see more code. The choice of Doctype can influence the validation.

A link would be the best way.

Frank

coothead

05-17-2010, 08:36 PM

Hi there Williebee,

it is the propriety embed element that causes validation failure.

Try it like this...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="language" content="english">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">

<title></title>

</head>
<body>

<div>

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.recyclenow.com/swf/recyclenow_08/SidebarWidget.swf" width="170" height="545">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.recyclenow.com/swf/recyclenow_08/SidebarWidget.swf">
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always">
<param name="flashvars" value="widgetBackgroundColor=ffffff">

<p>Find out what you can recycle at <a href="http://www.recyclenow.com">Recyclenow</a></p>

</object>

</div>

</body>
</html>

coothead

Williebee

05-18-2010, 02:05 PM

Many thanks 'Coothead'

I am not at home now but have had a quick play about with the code you provided and everything seems to work well. I can name the containing div and position it as I want.

On validation, it's 100% .. I never thought about trying a different DOC type.

Just one thing, is there any way I can get rid of the rounded corners, as I was initially intending to put this on a dark background. Colouring in the div doesn't work.

(ps I remember Chertsey well. I camped there many years ago with my parents, also at the lovely Laleham site nearby)

Effpeetee

Thank you for your reply too, but I think Coothead has sorted everything out.

_Aerospace_Eng_

05-18-2010, 02:17 PM

Just change the widgetBackgroundColor to the color of your choice. And it wasn't the doctype that fixed the issue. It was removing the embed tag although I recommend you look into SWF Object 2.0.

coothead

05-18-2010, 02:19 PM

Hi there Williebee,

change the highlighted value...

<param name="flashvars" value="widgetBackgroundColor=ffffff">

...to match your background-color value.

coothead

p.s. I am pleased that my home town gave you so much pleasure. :D