[Resolved] XHTML Transitional

GaryAC

Hi,

I am trying to make all my pages XHMTL 1.0 Transitional. However I am getting a weird error with the <legend> tag align attribute.

I am aligning some text in the center by using:

<legend align="center"><span class="chen"><strong>New Member:</strong></span></legend>

Which works, however when I validate it using the W3C mark up validation service it comes up eith the error:

Line 22, column 25: value of attribute "align" cannot be "center"; must be one of "top", "bottom", "left", "right" (explain...).

So its saying align must be "top", "bottom", "left", "right".

But everywhere I have researched it states that you can align using center, which you obviously can beccause it works when I use it.
However I want my pages to be XHTML Transitional!!!

Is this an error in W3C's validation service???

Any help would be much apprecited.

ahundiak

Try googling for xhtml legend. You will get a number of links to the spec. The ones I checked show that the align attribute does not support center. Can you post a link showing otherwise?

Browsers are very forgiving and usually try to do their best to render something. That's one of the main reasons why it's so difficult to write cross-browser code. They all tend to guess at what the html is supposed to mean.

BTW, the align attribute is depreciated. Consider using CSS instead.

GaryAC

Yep, heres a link I found:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_legend.asp?output=print

Cheers for taking your time to have a look at this for me.

ahundiak

I would have to say that w3schools have it wrong. Maybe you can report it to them?

The w3.org site is usually your best bet as they actually publish the specs.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-transitional.dtd_LAlign

GaryAC

May well be the case.

Cheers for your help.

Weedpacket

Note too that the align= attribute is deprecated; it's still valid in XHTML transitional, of course, but if you're going to be using stylesheets anyway you might as well use stylesheets for this as well.