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HTML Validation problem

  • 29-04-2010 12:52pm
    #1
    red_ice
    Registered Users Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭


    Hey

    Im doing a project atm and im just finishing up the validation process.. Its nothing major, just having a problem with that auto play. Basiclly when the page loads they want a chime to play. The code below plays it fine, but its not valid with 4.01 transitional.

    Any help/alternatives would be appreciated.
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 

<embed src="intro.wav"
hidden="true"
autostart="true">
</embed>


    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Eoin
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 21,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Does this page help?

    The zealots might not agree with this, but if you want standards compliant XHTML but still need a non-standard (but fully working) bit of mark-up, you can be naughty and write out the HTML using a JavaScript function.


  • #3
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Moved from Development, I think this is a better home for this question.


  • #4
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Embed is not going to validate but you need it. Just take the hit. It won't cause any browser problems. I wouldn't even bother with hiding in js as eoin suggests despite me being one of those zealots.


  • #5
    cormee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭cormee


    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
    </head>

    <body>
    <object height="0%" width="0%"
    classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
    <param name="AutoStart" value="1" />
    <param name="FileName" value="sound.wav" />
    </object>
    </body>
    </html>

    Validates OK


  • #6
    red_ice
    Registered Users Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭red_ice


    Thanks for all the replies

    loads of help, learned a bit too in the process, thumbs up for everybody


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  • #7
    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    I cant say for sure but when I was working on embedding objects I think I read somewhere that embed is an unofficial tag used by FF and object is used by IE (I could have them mixed up). If you want the object to work in both browsers I think you need to use both tags like so....

    [HTML]<object width="255" height="206">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com&quot; />
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
    <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
    <embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/&quot; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="255" height="206"></embed>
    </object>[/HTML]


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