Validation Error

[stublackett]

Hello,

 

I'm just running my page through the W3 Validator

 

and I'm consistantly getting the error message :

 

Line 99, Column 25: there is no attribute "background".

<td background="images/side-left.png"><img src="images/spacer.png"

 

The Advice W3 Gives me is this...

You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

 

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

 

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page,

 

How do I make sure that this doesnt happen consistantly?

 

My colleague has made the page using tables  ??? which does kinda make it a nightmare when validating HTML

[akitchin]

you'd need to adjust the tags so that the background is in there as a CSS attribute:

 

<td style="background-image: url(images/side-left.png);">

 

www.w3schools.com is your friend here.