web site validation

[Suvek]

Most browsers (all?) will probably handle these errors and display everything "correctly", they usually accept deprecated elements, attributes and other things that are not part of the specification in case of HTML 4.01.

For example usage of FONT element is not valid, attributes like BORDER are not used (use css instead) etc. I dont know dreamweaver and how it performs validation but that validation within FF or W3C web validator give you comments and explanations so you get an idea how to correct errors. It's really often just use of deprecated elements or something like that.

[suunto]

thanks guys i appreciate your replies

i've used the first website that comes up with the search 'validation' on google and tried a few websites with it........talkgraphics gets one error so that very good but ebay uk gets 223 errors and amazon get 1479 so it must be like you say Suvek the browser can handle them and display everything correctly