Correctly nested but body element not allowed there?

**Kadee** · Dec 4, 2006, 12:51

I have created a basic site for friends. But on pages where I use an inline frame I get a validation error. Take this page for example:

http://www.discobarkadee.com/kalender.html

It says that the body element is not allowed there. The problem doesn't seem to be the iframe because when I leave out that part it still gives me the error. Any ideas?

**brandaggio** · Dec 4, 2006, 15:15

Originally Posted by Kadee

I have created a basic site for friends. But on pages where I use an inline frame I get a validation error. Take this page for example:

http://www.discobarkadee.com/kalender.html

It says that the body element is not allowed there. The problem doesn't seem to be the iframe because when I leave out that part it still gives me the error. Any ideas?

You are using an iframe not a frameset so you would use a transitional doctype like so (code has been validated):

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
 http-equiv="content-type" />
  <title>discobar Kadee kalender</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="logo"></div>
<ul id="menu">
  <li><a href="index.html">&bull; Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="fotos.html">&bull; foto's</a></li>
  <li><a href="kalender.html">&bull; kalender</a></li>
  <li><a href="gastenboek.html">&bull; gastenboek</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="content"><iframe src="http://www.google.com"
 frameborder="0" height="588" width="570"></iframe></div>
<div id="footer">@copyright Discobar Kadee - <span>BTW
BE 884.945.549<br />
Kleine onderneming onderworpen aan de vrijstellingsregeling van
belasting. BTW niet
toepasselijk.</span></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

As an aside, why not just use the bullets that are native part of a list rather than removing them and adding them back with • as you have.

**Kadee** · Dec 4, 2006, 15:59

Thanks for clarification about iframe/frameset. I'm not used to these.

For the bullets, I let them slip in while I was testing all sorts of possibilities and I guess I ended up with bullets without thinking about using the native ones. Good suggestion.

**Kadee** · Dec 4, 2006, 16:13

Small update about the bullets: they don't appear with display:inline. So I guess the most semantically correct thing to do would be to have a background image.

**brandaggio** · Dec 4, 2006, 16:44

Originally Posted by Kadee

Small update about the bullets: they don't appear with display:inline. So I guess the most semantically correct thing to do would be to have a background image.

Something along these lines:

Code:

ul li { float: left; margin-right: 2em; }

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