Lightbox++ vs XHTML Validation

by Jon Bishop on September 25, 2007

in Web Development

So I was tying so hard to keep my portfolio XHTML valid. When i added the Lightbox++ script (which is a modified version of Lightbox) my portfolio had some errors according to the W3 standards. So after doing a little research and looking around I came to this solution.

First, the problem was that the doctype wasn’t recognizing the height and width attributes i was setting in the tag.

So here was my solution.

  1.  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  2.     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" [
  3.  <!ATTLIST a width CDATA #IMPLIED>
  4.  
  5.  <!ATTLIST a height CDATA #IMPLIED>
  6.  ] >

NOTE:Problem with this fix is that it leaves a single ‘>’ at the top of your page

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