I don’t mean to be a pest, but does anyone have any idea why my site will XHTML Validate when I use the Tiga theme, but not when I use the Daily Digest Theme? I’ve looked at the coding in my published posts in both themes, and nothign seems changed when I switch to the Digest theme, but all of a sudden I get 36 errors, mostly the
- errors, like “document type does not allow element “li” here; missing one of “ul”, “ol” start-tag.”
The other most ocmmon errors are “element “font” undefined”, and “there is no attribute “align”.” (as well as no attribute “Target”, “Color” “Border” etc). Nothing has changed codewise when I switch fro mthe Tiga to the Daily Digest Theme, as I’vve checked out hte code in the published posts in both themes- but all of a sudden the Validator doesn’t like hte formatting of my posts when I go to the Digest Theme.
I don’t know for sure, but my guess is that your old theme was using a different Doctype to the new one you want to use.
Was Tiga XHTML 1.0 Transisitional? Because the one you’re using now has a “Strict” Doctype, which is less forgiving.
It does seem the problems are related to your post content rather than the theme.
Hi, thanks IR- Yeah, most of my errors are related to my posts (however a few are related to sidebar issues which I can’t even find in any of the php’s or css’s in my theme editor- like hte “Islam Revealed” sidebar section is not listed, nor are any of the other sidebar sections such as the ‘artist links’, climate hype’ etc- these sections don’t even show up so I could correct them. All the errors seem to be either content I post, or content in the sidebars that I post- not hte theme itself.
Yes, I think Tiga was transitional- not sure though, but it seems like it would have been if it was validating more easily than the Daily Digest theme. Not sure how to really tell though.
I’d really like to use the Daily Digest theme- is there any was to possibly make it transitional and more forgiving?
OK- I deleted the theme, and reinstalled it, and now only get 15 errors- all due to images in my posts it seems- Validator complaines about ‘align’ ‘target’ ‘color’ etc, and the rest of errors are “element “font” undefined” errors.
When I had all the other errors before, it was due to me tryign to add sidebar sections like ‘recent posts’, which worked, and trying to add in a section to house my ads and extra links etc.
How would I add a section header (what I’m talking about is a header like “Archives” that you see on my site, but renaming it to somethign like “Extra links” or “Environmental issues” or something?)
The errors I can probalby figuer out with the internet search, but I’d liek to add soem sidebar sections to house all my previous links and stuff.
nm- I’m going back to the Tiga theme as the Digest theme just won’t post my posts the way I want- it’s far too strict a code to allow me to post my pictures like I want (at hte top left with text to the right of it- the Digest theme keeps complaining about the ‘align’ attribute being invalid as well as ‘font’ attirbutes being invlid- when I fix them, the posts come out looking terrible with text below the pictures, the wrong font look etc-)
Anyway- Really disappointed as I really wanted to make the Daily Digest hteme work- just wish it had been written with XHTML transitional instead of XHTML strict.
