Confused: Must come before

**colbyt** · 09-15-2007, 07:18 PM

Trying to validate a page where I know I have closings tags. Do they have to be in a certain order?

Here is the report:

Line 43, Column 241: end tag for "B" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this.
…25d"> bold and colored green. They will change to is there.

What am I not understanding?

**whym** · 09-15-2007, 07:31 PM

You have 2 options:

1) Use blah blah blah 
OR
2) Use blah blah blah 

I.e. you must close the innermost tag first, then the ones outside of it after.
This way will pass validation.

Hope I've helped.

Talkupation appreciated

**joder** · 09-15-2007, 11:27 PM

The tag has been deprecated for quite a while. I would suggest formatting with style sheets.

http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/font.html

What's wrong with the FONT element?
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/font.html

**colbyt** · 09:00 AM

Thanks Whym! That is what I needed to know. I suspected it had something to do with order.

Quote:

Originally Posted by joder

The tag has been deprecated for quite a while. I would suggest formatting with style sheets.
What's wrong with the FONT element?
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/font.html

I am using a style sheet. For one occurence on an entire site, I just don't think it worth the time to add it to the style sheet.

**Dknight** · 09-16-2007, 09:12 AM

I always use the styles, instead of tags, for text formating:

bla bla bla

**joder** · 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colbyt

I am using a style sheet. For one occurence on an entire site, I just don't think it worth the time to add it to the style sheet.

That's why you can do styles inline and don't have to put them in a separate file.

For example: Text

**LadynRed** · 09-16-2007, 08:32 PM

Quote:

I just don't think it worth the time to add it to the style sheet.

You couldn't be more wrong.
When you have a site with a zillion font tags on every page, when it comes to CHANGE that font site-wide you have to edit EVERY PAGE, it's very time consuming. If you forget the moldy old tag and use stylesheets to control your font declarations, you can change the ENTIRE site by changing ONE line in your CSS file.

Your problem isn't that you're missing a tag, the problem is that your tags are improperly nested.