Legal Tag Order

[waynemac]

Hi,

 

Im wanting to center a photo in a phpwebsite block and have found that I cant by way of align="center"...it just gets ignored. So I added a <div align="center">, it works but Validator says "Dont!".

 

Im wondering if:

1. I can use div and ahef together

2. If so what order is legal <div><a href>... or <a href><div>...

 

Thanx.

 

Wayne

[Deverill]

<div> is a "division" or a section of the page. You would want to do this:

 

<div align="center"><a href=...> stuff </a> </div>

[TCH-Don]

I think the validater would prefer that you create a section in your css file

to center the div

 

as in your css file

 

div.photo{

text-align: center;

}

 

then in your html

 

<div class="photo" >

<img src="photo.jpg" title="hi" />

</div>

 

 

Then you can add to the css

div.photo{

text-align: center;

border: medium solid black;

}

 

to add a border, or whatever.

 

 

 

 

Or you can also use in css

 

img.photo{

text-align: center;

border: medium solid black;

}

 

and the html

 

<img class="photo" src="photo.jpg" title="photo" />

[DWD]

...so what about my method of putting <p align=center> before my images?

[TCH-Don]

You can check your site by going here

http://validator.w3.org/checklink

 

If you have not read up on vaidation, it can look confusing.

http://validator.w3.org/docs/ may help.

[TCH-Bruce]

...so what about my method of putting

before my images?

Perfectly acceptable. I use it this way.

[Deverill]

It also depends on which standards you are trying to validate for. The most strict would disallow any placement or style things from the main page. Everything from centers to fonts to colors. The more casual standard would allow most of these.

 

Don has a great example here of how to do it the strict way. Thumbs Up

[waynemac]

All, thanx for the input. Im off to see what I can do. Great feedback from TCH people...as usual.

 

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