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Dr. Watson & Weblint
Validation Results





Text area 1                          (partial validation results below)

Using this method (from various  news:alt.pagebuilder.help  posters) at the beginning of the text-editing area, to change the background of a Webtv PageBuilder webpage:

</body></html><html><body background="http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/scrapbookFiles/importD3.gif" text="#F5DEB3">

will result in validation errors and warnings, since multiple body AND html tags are being used (the ones Webtv automatically adds and the ones you are adding).


And using this method:

<body background="http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/scrapbookFiles/importD3.gif" text="#F5DEB3">


will also result in validation errors and warnings, since multiple body tags are being used (the one Webtv automatically adds and the one you are adding).



Text area 2

Using:

</table>

at the beginning of the text-editing area will result in validation errors also.



These are the warnings / errors
the page above produces
when run through a 3.2 Html validator at

Any Browser -- Weblint
http://www.anybrowser.com
and
Dr. Watson
http://watson.addy.com/

The warnings / errors may cause problems
for computer viewers of your webpage.
( blank screen, etc. )


Complete Validation Results
in textarea form


Partial Validation Results from Weblint below:


Source Code with errors are in dark red.

Codes added by Webtv are in black.

1:<<>html>
2:<<>head>
3:<<>META NAME="description" CONTENT="Webtv PageBuilder:
Validating the source code to see the errors made by using
<<>/body>, <<>/html>, <<>html> and <<>/table> ">
4:<<>title>DrWatson&Weblint<<>/title>
5:<<>/head>
6:<<>body bgcolor="silver" text="black" link="blue"
alink="red" vlink="#ff00ff">
7:<<>font size="+3"><<>b>
8:DrWatson&Weblint
9:<<>/b><<>/font>
10:<<>P>

Beginning of text area 1, using extra html and body code tags

11:<<>TABLE>
12:<<>TR><<>TD>
13:<<>P ALIGN=left>
--- empty container element <<>P>.
14:<<>/body><<>/html><<>html><<>body
background="http://community.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/images/ scrapbookFiles/importD3.gif" text="#F5DEB3">
--- no closing <<>/TABLE> seen for <<>TABLE> on line 11.
--- tag <<>HTML> should only appear once. I saw one on line 1!
--- <<>BODY> must immediately follow <<>/HEAD|NOFRAMES|/FRAMESET>
--- tag <<>BODY> should only appear once. I saw one on line 6!
15:Text area 1---using:
16:<<>br>
17: (code from line 14 displayed on webpage)
18:<<>br>
19:at the beginning of the text-editing area.
20:<<>br>
21:<<>hr>
22:<<>/TD><<>/TR><<>/TABLE>
23 <<>/P>
--- unmatched <<>/TD> (no matching <<>TD> seen).
--- unmatched <<>/TR> (no matching <<>TR> seen).
--- unmatched <<>/TABLE> (no matching <<>TABLE> seen).

End of text area 1



Beginning of text area 2, using <<>/table> code.

24 <<>P>
25 <<>TABLE>
26 <<>TR><<>TD>
27 <<>P ALIGN=left>

28:<<>/table>
29:Text area 2---using:
30:<<>br>
31:(code from line 28 displayed on webpage)
32:<<>br>
33:at the beginning of the text-editing area.
34:<<>br>
35:<<>br>
36:<<>hr>
37:<<>/TD><<>/TR><<>/TABLE>
--- unmatched <<>/TD> (no matching <<>TD> seen).
--- unmatched <<>/TR> (no matching <<>TR> seen).
--- unmatched <<>/TABLE> (no matching <<>TABLE> seen).

End of text area 2



NOTE:  Similar errors  will occur if you surround any codes
with <<>html> and <<>/html>, such as
<<>html><<>img src="url of image"><<>/html>.
Using extra <<>html> and <<>/html> tags is not necessary in the Webtv PageBuilder.
A webpage is suppose to contain
only one opening <<>html> tag and one closing <<>/html> tag.

Using <<>/body><<>/html><<>html> is not necessary when entering a new <<>body> tag (text area 1 at  top of page). See
http://community-1.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/threebackgrounds/index.html,
but, similar errors will occur even if you use just
<<>body background="url" text="color">
in an "add an item"--"text" area.
A webpage is suppose to contain
only one opening <<>body> tag and one closing <<>/body> tag.





A Possible Solution
( with a  drawback )



One particular problem that some computer viewers may have with webpages that contain more than one set of opening and closing html and body tags is that the webpage will appear blank or white when accessed by some computer viewers.


The method below does not use extra <<>html> or <<>body> code tags at all and it will work on any webpage, regardless of the "page style" initially chosen.

Most of the page will have the background you want, but it will have an outside border of the webtv page style initially chosen.

Use only one "add an item"--"text" area for the entire webpage, and use a table construction in the text editing area.
Do not use any opening or closing <<>html> or <<>body> codes tags in any editing area.

The "add an item"--"text" area should look like this:

<<>table width="100%" cellpadding="10" background="url of background image" bgcolor="similar color to the background image">
<<>tr>
<<>td>

Title of page here

Add all the webpage content here,
including images (with urls and html codes),
text, marquees, etc

<<>/td>
<<>/tr>
<<>/table>              Demonstration page


NOTE: Be sure to add a bgcolor to the table in case the background image does not load up (for whatever reason).

Unfortunately, not all computer viewers can see table image backgrounds, so while this method will solve the "blank screen" problem they have (caused by using multiple html and body code tags), they may only see the bgcolor of the table instead of the background image you intended them to see. But at least they will see the contents of the webpage instead of the blank page.

An alternate method
http://community.webtv.net/buonafortuna/doc/
Validation results for buonafortuna's method:
http://community-1.webtv.net/Pwilliamandx/MoreValidation/




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