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W3C Validator - Document type does not allow element "body" here

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+4 A:

You're using the Frameset DTD, which doesn't allow body. It is meant for use with framesets, which are used to display frames. You can use Strict instead:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Matthew Flaschen 2010-08-05 01:44:12

But then I can't use frames

Casebash 2010-08-05 02:01:50

Doctype decorations :)

Thqr 2010-08-05 02:06:28

@Thqr: What do you mean?

Casebash 2010-08-05 02:08:00

Its what I call the arguement for using different doctype declarations "Doctype Decorations" someone will always say to use a different one (usually). But depends what frames are you using?

Thqr 2010-08-05 02:12:54

You want either a frameset or a body element in each page, but not both. Your `<frame>`s should have as attributes references to other (X)HTML files which in turn should be either framesets or simple pages without frames.

Ben Alpert 2010-08-05 02:14:37

@Case, yes, you can't have both a body and a frameset, unless the body is in a noframes.

Matthew Flaschen 2010-08-05 02:16:02

@Ben: Framesets appear to only allow you to have frames at the top level of a document. I am currently using an iframe pretty deep inside the document to display an error message page (which can be arbitrary html) in an expandable section. I think I may switch to using Transitional instead.

Casebash 2010-08-05 02:22:47

Basically, each file should have exactly one of either a `<frameset>` or a `<body>`. If you used a `<frameset>`, then use the Frameset DOCTYPE. Otherwise, use Strict or Traditional.

Ben Alpert 2010-08-05 02:39:21

@Ben Alpert - There is no need for transitional on new web pages.

Rob 2010-08-05 02:46:03

@Rob: Unless you need things like iframes

Casebash 2010-08-05 02:52:51

@Casebash - iframes are standard HTML and work just fine with strict.

Rob 2010-08-05 12:17:45

@Rob: Strict XHTML gives me a validation error

Casebash 2010-08-05 12:19:43

@Casebash - I didn't notice he was using XHTML which doesn't support iframe since it's XML.

Rob 2010-08-05 14:52:39

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