Any way of validating?

nffcchris

Hi, i'm new to this forum, and I apologise if this is in the wrong section. I am trying to get my page to validate, using the W3C XHTML validator, which it should do. I am using a variable stored in a MySQL table as the background colour, however the validator is not accepting this.

Warning Line 107 column 15: character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data.

Is there any way of making this validate? I posted this on a PHP help forum, because I am looking at a different way of achieving the same outcome using PHP. Thank you in advance for any help.

rincewind456

If the page has been parsed though the server then the W3c validator would not see the php code. So check to make sure that the page your sending to the validator is being parssed.

If you are trying to validate to XHTML or HTML the the bgcolor attribute has been deprecated in the <BODY> tag. It should be assigned through CSS.

nffcchris

Thanks a lot for your help, do you know of any way of doing this though? Through CSS I mean. I just tried this:

BODY {background-color: <?php echo $bgcolour;?>;}

But this didn't even work, never mind validate. Is there any way of doing this? Or am I just going to have to accept that retrieving the background colour will never validate?