HTML Validation Service Results

Document Checked

URI: http://www.altavista.com/
Server: AV/1.0.1
Content length: 11745
Character encoding: iso-8859-1
Document type: HTML 4.01 Transitional

Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.

Line 25, column 30:

  <body bgcolor=white topmargin=3 marginheight=3><center>
                                ^

Error: there is no attribute "TOPMARGIN" for this element (in this HTML version) (explanation...)

Line 25, column 45:

  <body bgcolor=white topmargin=3 marginheight=3><center>
                                               ^

Error: there is no attribute "MARGINHEIGHT" for this element (in this HTML version) (explanation...)

Line 30, column 136:

  ...  width=211 height=45 border=0 alt=AltaVista align=baseline></a>&nbsp;
                                                        ^

Error: value of attribute "ALIGN" cannot be "BASELINE"; must be one of "TOP", "MIDDLE", "BOTTOM", "LEFT", "RIGHT"

Line 39, column 25:

  ... <hr size=2 noshade color="#FFCC00"><div style="padding-botto ...
                           ^

Error: there is no attribute "COLOR" for this element (in this HTML version) (explanation...)

Line 50, column 114:

  ... order=0><form action="/sites/search/web" name=mfrm><tr>
                                                        ^

Error: element "FORM" not allowed here; check which elements this element may be contained within (explanation...)

Line 50, column 118:

  ... r=0><form action="/sites/search/web" name=mfrm><tr>
                                                        ^

Error: element "TR" not allowed here; check which elements this element may be contained within (explanation...)

Line 54, column 33:

  ... <a href="/cgi-bin/query?pref=res&stype=stext&Translate=on&sc ...
                                   ^

Error: unknown entity "stype" (explanation...)

Line 54, column 45:

  ... cgi-bin/query?pref=res&stype=stext&Translate=on&sc=on" class ...
                                         ^

Error: unknown entity "Translate" (explanation...)

Line 54, column 58:

  ... ?pref=res&stype=stext&Translate=on&sc=on" class=qb>Customize ...
                                         ^

Error: unknown entity "sc" (explanation...)

Line 58, column 27:
```
 &nbsp;</td></tr><tr>
 ^
```
Error: element "TR" not allowed here; check which elements this element may be contained within (explanation...)
Line 100, column 13:
```
 </td></tr><tr>
 ^
```
Error: element "TR" not allowed here; check which elements this element may be contained within (explanation...)

Line 105, column 89:

  ... </a></small></small>&nbsp;</th></tr></form></table>
                                                        ^

Error: missing a required sub-element of "TABLE" (explanation...)

Line 111, column 101:

  ... ?http://shopping.altavista.com/go/frame.sdc?m=115&o=-11&url=http://cli ...
                                                        ^

Error: unknown entity "o" (explanation...)

Line 111, column 107:

  ... //shopping.altavista.com/go/frame.sdc?m=115&o=-11&url=http://click.ave ...
                                                        ^

Error: unknown entity "url" (explanation...)

Line 111, column 265:

  ... /cat/get_cat_page.asp?CatID=0%26Pg=0%26s=uwb61079&opt=4">Win at Paying ...
                                                        ^

Error: unknown entity "opt" (explanation...)

Line 115, column 168:

  ... hspace=3 vspace=4 border=0 alt="Babel Fish" align=absmiddle>Translate< ...
                                                        ^

Error: value of attribute "ALIGN" cannot be "ABSMIDDLE"; must be one of "TOP", "MIDDLE", "BOTTOM", "LEFT", "RIGHT"

Line 131, column 62:

  ... a>:</B> <a href="/r?ck_sm=716dd03e&ref=10000020081&ci=4771&r ...
                                         ^

Error: unknown entity "ref" (explanation...)

Line 131, column 78:

  ... >:</B> <a href="/r?ck_sm=716dd03e&ref=10000020081&ci=4771&r=http%3A%2F ...
                                                        ^

Error: unknown entity "ci" (explanation...)

Line 131, column 86:

  ... a href="/r?ck_sm=716dd03e&ref=10000020081&ci=4771&r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2 ...
                                                        ^

Error: unknown entity "r" (explanation...)

Line 131, column 331:

  ... .com/2001/07/14/politics/14ASSE.html?ex=995774400&en=17852685fe84cf60& ...
                                                        ^

Error: unknown entity "en" (explanation...)

Line 131, column 351:

  ... tics/14ASSE.html?ex=995774400&en=17852685fe84cf60&ei=5006&partner=ALTA ...
                                                        ^

Error: unknown entity "ei" (explanation...)

Line 131, column 359:

  ... SSE.html?ex=995774400&en=17852685fe84cf60&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1'; ...
                                                        ^

Error: unknown entity "partner" (explanation...)

Line 231, column 16:
```
 <table width=100% cellpadding=0 border=0 cellspacing=0>
 ^
```
Error: an attribute value must be quoted if it contains any character other than letters (A-Za-z), digits, hyphens, and periods; use quotes if in doubt (explanation...)
Line 232, column 16:
```
 <tr><td width=50%><a href="/r?L32">Submit a Site</a> 
 ^
```
Error: an attribute value must be quoted if it contains any character other than letters (A-Za-z), digits, hyphens, and periods; use quotes if in doubt (explanation...)
Line 238, column 25:
```
 </td><td width=50% valign=top>
 ^
```
Error: an attribute value must be quoted if it contains any character other than letters (A-Za-z), digits, hyphens, and periods; use quotes if in doubt (explanation...)

Line 296, column 31:

  ... <a href="/r?F38"><img src=http://a12.g.akamai.net/7/12/282/0 ...
                                 ^

Error: required attribute "ALT" not specified (explanation...)

Sorry, this document does not validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional.

If you use CSS in your document, you should also check it for validity using the W3C CSS Validation Service.

Gerald Oskoboiny
Last modified: Date: 2001/06/22 08:53:26