By David Fekke
January 17th, 2011
I just went through the process of making sure my site is XHTML 1.1 and CSS compliant. The W3C.org site has several validators that will inspect your code to make sure it is compliant. They will show line by line where there are problems in your code.
Bottom line is that my site had a lot of compliance issues. I got them fixed, but here are some of the gotchas I ran into cleaning up my design.
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For the 1.1 compliance you need to adhere to strict XHTML. Targets attributes are not allowed in href anchor tags. I have used target="_blank" to open up new windows, but I have had to replace them with the following syntax;
"javascript:window.open('[http://www.JaxFusion.org/](http://www.JaxFusion.org/)','JaxFusion');" title="Home of the Jacksonville, FL ColdFusion User Group">JaxFusion