[SOLVED]Footer not XHTML compliant

[Kit51]

I noticed that the footer for "News management powered byXpression News" is not in compliance with the XHTML standard. I tried looking for this section in the script but I can't seem to find it. Is there any way to edit so that it fits the XHTML standard?

Thanks in advance.

[rokxer]

The footer is encoded and very well hidden. I'll ask the script's author if we can do anything about it.

[Kit51]

Thanks.

[rokxer]

Can you tell me in which way the footer is not XHTML compliant? Because i don't really know what is wrong

I think this is the code you we are looking into:

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<div align="center"><font color="#666666" size="-2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">News
  management powered by</font><font size="-2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
  <a href="http://xpression.hogsmeade-village.com">Xpression News</a></font></div>

[Kit51]

The code you will provide will work if the DOCTYPE is set to either HTML 4.01 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Transitional, it will fail in the W3C Markup Validator.

Original code

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<div align="center"><font color="#666666" size="-2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">News
  management powered by</font><font size="-2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
  <a href="http://xpression.hogsmeade-village.com">Xpression News</a></font></div>

Using this as a guide, the <font> tag is deprecated and it is currently being replaced with CSS.

To address this issue, I have modified part of it to suit for all DOCTYPEs:

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<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#666666; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:x-small;">News
  management powered by</span><span style="font-size:x-small; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
  <a href="http://xpression.hogsmeade-village.com">Xpression News</a></span></div>

I hope that clears up for you. The code has been tested with the W3C Markup Validator.

[rokxer]

The footer is now XHTML compilant. You just have to login in the admin panel to refresh it.