File will not validate

**HarleyR** · 07-17-2006, 05:53 PM

HI, thanks for your help on my pages. They all validate now except one. I MUST use frames for this sign language page. The index file that sets up the frames works, but will not validate. Any help will be appreciated. Here is the entire file.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www/w3/org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="sign language,sign,learn sign language,ASL,beginning sign">
<meta name="description" content="A public service tutorial for American Sign Language.">
<meta name="Author" content="Harley Lee">
<meta name="generator" content="Text editor">
<title> American Sign Language Tutorial</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="150,*">
<frame src="left.html" name="lf">
<frame src="right.html" name="rf">
</frameset>
</html>

**AliKat** · 07-17-2006, 06:47 PM

You have to use a different doctype.

An Example from W3C.org

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>A simple frameset document</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET cols="20%, 80%">
  <FRAMESET rows="100, 200">
      <FRAME src="contents_of_frame1.html">
      <FRAME src="contents_of_frame2.gif">
  </FRAMESET>
  <FRAME src="contents_of_frame3.html">
  <NOFRAMES>
      <P>This frameset document contains:
      <UL>
         <LI><A href="contents_of_frame1.html">Some neat contents</A>
         <LI><IMG src="contents_of_frame2.gif" alt="A neat image">
         <LI><A href="contents_of_frame3.html">Some other neat contents</A>
      </UL>
  </NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>