Validating CSS stylesheet

  • Resolved broomy

    (@broomy)


    18 years, 7 months ago

    After validating xhtml I have been trying to validate my stylesheet (wahow. org), but i’m stuck on a few errors:

    I get a few parse errors from the post-ratings plugin. I copied the stylesheet for the plugin into my main stylesheet so that I didn’t have stylesheets all over the place. I’m not sure what i’d need to do to remove these errors.

    I get redefinition warnings because i’ve tried to keep my site compliant to all browsers. Does this validation part matter because i’m not sure how I could validate this without coming across errors across browsers if I remove them.

    Lastly, i have no background-color for a few styles because they apply to different sections of my site with different backgrounds. I thought i’d be able to use background-color: transparent; but this doesn’t seem to validate. How can I do this?

    If anyone can help with any of this i’d appreciate it.

    Thanks.

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  • Sounds like those are all warnings, not “errors”. I look at those as much more discretionary, at least I don’t attach nearly the significance of a validation ‘error’.

    As far as cross-browser stuff, I gave up some time ago trying to make everything work in one stylesheet and now use conditional commenting (for IE<6).

    Thread Starter broomy

    (@broomy)

    Seems you’re my personal helper Yosemite :-). Thanks again, i’ll try and get as many warnings sorted if possible, but i’ll nevertheless just have to accept the majority of it rather than risk messing up my layout.

    Thanks.

    I agree with Sam, there – but I’d also like to toss in a comment:

    The W3C did something to the CSS validator that makes the absense of “background-color: when you have a “color” stated (or vice versa) in *any* part of your stylesheet a warning. Such a thing is fairly redundant and not necessary – most designers I know (including myself) *will* ignore the color/background-color warnings.

    So if I were you, I wouldn’t bang my head on that one. Any other warnings, however, are to your discretion ??

    Thread Starter broomy

    (@broomy)

    Thanks doodlebee, it was beginning to get a bit frustrating because i’ve been looking up using background-color: transparent; and many of the sites were explaining that it is ok, yet I couldn’t successfully validate.

    Thanks for clearing that up.

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