First I would like to say that the trustlogo works exactly as it suppose to…but the html generated to display it and the pop-up does not validate. As a developer I find that a bit annoying, I know that the majority of people won’t be looking at the site with Firefox with the validator plugins installed but the few who do, like those shopping for design service, will be looking for things like that. I am considering not displaying the corner logo because of this and I know that the host that I purchase the secure cert through doesn’t display it on his site for the same reason. So when your developers get around to correcting this issue let me know
Hi Marsh,
Please let me know what page you are trying to validate and the method used.
Thanks
As an example…this is from the homepage of comodo:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.small {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 8px;
color: #000000;
}
.header {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: 900;
color: #000000;
border: none;
}
.medium {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #000000;
}
.VE {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: 900;
color: #FF0000;
padding-left: 8px;
}
.ve-link:active, .ve-link:visited, .ve-link:link{
color: #FF0000;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.ve-link:hover{
color: #FF3300;
text-decoration: underline;
}
</style>
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table width="244" height="194" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="/trustlogo/images/popup/cornertrust-bg.jpg">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top"><table width="100%" height="188"
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="45" align="left" valign="top"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="127" align="left" valign="top"><div align="left">
<table width="100%" height="127" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="33" align="left" valign="top"><table width="100%" height="33" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="82%" align="left" valign="middle" class="header">
<div style="padding:0px 0px 0px 8px;text-align: left;vertical-align: middle;">
<script>
var coname="Comodo CA Limited";document.write(coname.replace(/ /g,""));
</script>
</div>
</td>
<td width="18%" align="left" valign="middle"><img alt="" src="/ttb_searcher/binary/logo.asp?v_querytype=flag&v_search=GBR" vspace="3px" width="31px" height="17px"></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="69" align="center" valign="middle" class="medium">
3rd Floor, Building 26
Office Village, Exchange Quay
Trafford road
Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 3EQ, United Kingdom
<span class="header">http://www.comodo.com/</span>
<span class="header">28-FEB 2007 13:47:22 GMT</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="20" align="center" valign="middle" class="medium"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="13" align="left" valign="top" class="small"> <b>© Copyright. Data provided by IdAuthority ™</b></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This is what the Html validator 0.7.9.5 plugin for Firefox says about it:
line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 60 column 110 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity “&v_search”
line 2 column 1 - Warning: inserting missing ‘title’ element
line 39 column 1 - Warning: proprietary attribute “leftmargin”
line 39 column 1 - Warning: proprietary attribute “topmargin”
line 39 column 1 - Warning: proprietary attribute “marginwidth”
line 39 column 1 - Warning: proprietary attribute “marginheight”
line 40 column 1 - Warning: proprietary attribute “height”
line 40 column 1 - Warning:proprietary attribute “background”
line 42 column 32 - Warning:proprietary attribute “height”
line 49 column 2 - Warning:proprietary attribute “height”
line 51 column 44 - Warning:proprietary attribute “height”
line 55 column 2 - Warning: inserting “type” attribute
line 60 column 47 - Warning:attribute “vspace” has invalid value “3px”
line 60 column 47 - Warning:attribute “width” has invalid value “31px”
line 60 column 47 - Warning:attribute “height” has invalid value “17px”
0 errors / 16 warnings
If you cut and paste the code into the W3C validator it gets pretty much the same
Ahhh I see, I thought were referring to the TrustLogo JavaScript code and not the html page it generates.
Thanks for pointing this out, I’ll get right on it.
did we get a resolution to this problem.
i have a strict htm compliant code and really would like to have it validated
hello
i am having this exact problem
it seems that the validator does npt like the code
i think moving the attrinutes to css might resolve the issue and having a cleaner code is always nice