onload validation problem

**Daniel@EZPZ** · 06-05-2007, 02:17 PM

Hi folks,
Im trying to get the following section of code to validate. However I have no idea what is wrong with it..

Code:

<a href="#" target="_blank" onclick="openLiveHelp(); return false"><img src="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/livehelp/include/status.php" id="LiveHelpStatus" name="LiveHelpStatus" border="0" alt="Live Help" onload="statusImagesLiveHelp[statusImagesLiveHelp.length] = this;"/></a>

This code is entered in the body of the page. The doctype is..

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

The error I am getting with the validator is..

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Many thanks.

Dan

**willcode4beer** · 06-05-2007, 02:39 PM

You have left out the error message.
However, from looking at your post, I can tell you that there is no onload attribute for the img tag in XHTML so, that is probably your first validation error. To fix, remove it

**LadynRed** · 03:50 PM

The "target" attribute is deprecated in XHTML and should not be used - and that is also a likely error message source.

**Daniel@EZPZ** · 06-05-2007, 04:12 PM

It was the onload causing a problem with a "no attribute" message however I had no idea what that meant.

Removing it has fixed the issue, I assumed removing it would stop something from working but everything seems normal so far, odd!

Thanks for you help folks

**tripy** · 05:23 PM

This onclick was triggered only uppon a click on the link.
Your link should be non-working now, if you simply removed the onclick.

And be warned that the target= attribute is deprecated too in the xhtml strict doctype.
Your code will only validate on xhtml/transitional
Migrate the onclick into the href to have it valid and operational:

HTML Code:

<a href="javascript:openLiveHelp();" target="_blank" ><img src="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/livehelp/include/status.php" id="LiveHelpStatus" name="LiveHelpStatus" border="0" alt="Live Help" onload="statusImagesLiveHelp[statusImagesLiveHelp.length] = this;"/></a>

**Daniel@EZPZ** · 06-05-2007, 06:33 PM

Thanks tripy - the link seems to work fine without it which is odd.

I'll try your suggestion in the morning incase i've missed something, its late here in the UK

Dan

**tripy** · 06-05-2007, 07:10 PM

Central Europe here...
1 hour ahead of you even, but it's true I'm getting a bit tired...

Have a good rest.