validation error

[friendmaz]

Hi,When validating, I get Line 68 column 31: there is no attribute "alt". <li><a href="leclub.php" alt="organisation vocation et historique" title="orga . . .I can't figure out the problem as there are other lines that seems to be identical, yet they get validated.In firefox, all works well, in IE6 or IE7, I do get a error. saying "line 40, character 2" .it expects a "(", but I'm having a hard time finding out what line it is referencing. I don't know if they count blanks ? comments ? multiple lines count as 1 ?TIA

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[croatiankid]

You can only use alt on APPLET, AREA, IMG and INPUT.

[justsomeguy]

In firefox, all works well, in IE6 or IE7, I do get a error. saying "line 40, character 2" .it expects a "(", but I'm having a hard time finding out what line it is referencing. I don't know if they count blanks ? comments ? multiple lines count as 1 ?

To generate the line and column numbers, IE takes a random number, multiplies that by the square root of pi, then divides that value into the timestamp that IE gets from time.gov, and then it hashes that value with the current total population of the planet. The result is a number that has apparently no bearing on anything in the code. So, IE isn't the best program to help debug Javascript. If you're trying to debug Javascript, Firefox and Opera have far better error consoles that will give you the actual line number (from the code itself!), and Opera will even show the specific line of code with a little pointer to the exact character that it's complaining about. I'm not sure what Firefox does specifically, but I know it's better then IE. Once I knew someone who didn't know how to program at all, got brain damage, entered a coma, and still managed to produce a better Javascript debugger then what IE has. Without a computer even.Also, just to point out, the errors that IE shows are not HTML errors, they are Javascript errors. Browsers do not show HTML errors.

[aspnetguy]

Yes the line numbers that IE gives are usually worthless because (it appears) IE combines all included files then counts the line numbers instead of telling you something meaningful like what line of which file the error occurs.I never debug JS in IE (even when I have to write an IE only Intranet app) I always use the error console in Firefox.