[4 Me They said!]

Hello all,

Could you please show me how to 'validate this piece.

<a href="mailto:XYZ.com.au">
<div id="emailbar" title="Your E-mail address">
</div>
</a>

Thanks.

[GentsBabe]

This is the only way I've known how to do this:
<a href="mailto:yourname@yourdomain.com">yourname@yourdomain.com</a> or you could do:
<a href="mailto:yourname@yourdomain.com">Email me!</a>, whatever you like.

And if you want a pre setup Subject line - to insure it doesn't get thrown into your Junk box:
<a href="mailto:yourname@yourdomain.com?subject=Good%20Morning">Send an email to us</a>

The %20 represents a space, so if you wanted "Concerning your website" then it would be "Concerning%20your%20website".

I'm guessing that the one you had isn't working for 2 reasons:
1. there's no "@" in the email and
2. there's no actual link. It's like typing <a href="http://forums.techguy.org"></a>. Before the </a> part, there needs to be a name in order for the link to show up on a page for someone to be able to click on.

I tried typing it into one of my site's and no link showed up to click on, but when I added it to look like this:
<a href="mailto:XYZ.com.au">
<div id="emailbar" title="Your E-mail address">
</div>mailto:XYZ.com.au</a>
Then it worked.

Hope this helps

[4 Me They said!]

Thank you, but that is the 'html code. I am calling a 'css' for positioning, of the 'img' and want it to show that it is a link to be accessed.

I have tried heaps of combinations, but this is the only way it shows that it is a 'clickable link' - W3c will not 'validate' it however!

[GentsBabe]

Ok, my bad

I don't know about CSS... would it still have anything to do with not having anything typed in before the </a>?

And yes, I'm guessing now *blushes*

ETA: found this site: Complete Scripts: Form Processing

If you scroll down a little bit, there's a link for "PHP HTML Form Generation and Validation Class". Not sure if this helps you, but I hope so

[4 Me They said!]

I tried changing to putting the "mailto:yourname@XYZ.com.au" - It STILL did not 'validate'.

The <a href="mailtoYourname@XYZ.com.au"> BEFORE the <div id="emailbar" title="Your E-mail address"></div> and the 'closing' of the 'anchor' </a> AFTER the </div> is the only way that the "img" in the 'external 'css' file becomes 'active' - Yet it does not 'validate'.

If it is not written the above way, then it is NOT an active 'link' - The external 'css' file is used on 175 pages, EACH with 175 different 'e-mail' link addresses, so I can't put it externally??

This is the message I get when I try to 'validate' it at "w3c"

This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
1. Error Line 96 column 55: document type does not allow element "DIV" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag.
<a href="mailto:yourname@XYZ.com.au"><div id="emailbar"></div></a>
The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.
One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>").

Thanks

[GentsBabe]

I did some reading up and I'll admit I didn't understand a bit of it, but one site I went to suggested that having <font> tags messes things up.

Font is an element level tag, but div and h tags are block level (think paragraph), which is why they can't be contained within FONT tags. Hence your validation problem... But you really shouldn't be using font tags at all. They're deprecated, which means they may still work in browsers now but there are other (better) ways of doing what they do and future browsers may not recognise them.

Do you have <font> tags on your page?

Another site had more info, but too much to copy and paste, so here: Open Cube forum

If you want to read everything from the first site I posted: lists.evolt.org -archives

I hope someone comes along who does know this stuff and helps you better because I'm way over my head in this . I'm trying tho

[Gibbs]

What/where is your CSS/HTML code? That would help

[MMJ]

you can't put some tags inside of others.

I need to see your css code to know what you want.

[4 Me They said!]

Hi Gibbs,
This is in my 'head' section. -- <link rel="stylesheet" href="index-ff.css" type="text/css"/>

Hi MMJ,
This is in my .css file, -- #emailbar {
background:transparent;
position:absolute;
background: url(images/email1.gif);
width:89px;
height:26px;
left:520px;
top:860px;
color:#191970;
}

I want to make the 'url' active, but it needs to be active from the .html page, as they all have different 'e-mail addresses'.

This seems to be the only way I can make the 'src img=' active, (in the .html page) but it won't validate in w3c!! -- <a href="mailto:yourname@.com.au?subject="Your name page enquiry!">
<div id="emailbar" title="E-mail - Your E-mail address here"></div> </a>
--

Is there another way.

Thanks and sorry for delay.

[MMJ]

"active"?

what exactly are you trying to accomplish here? Why can't you just apply the style to the link?

[4 Me They said!]

To MMJ,
I have 2 documents. One of them is an .html file the other is a .css file.
In the .html file I have placed a "div" and in that "div" I requested a 'style' and I called it "emailbar" - With me so far?
The "emailbar" 'id' was asked to display an 'img' (url (images/email1.gif)) - the specifics are contained in the .css file. (see earlier post)

Now in the .html file I need someone to 'click' onto the "email.gif" to send an email to the address on that particular page only, in the .html file. (the 'href')

As I have over 500 pages with the 'email.gif' on, but only about 175 with their 'email' addresses, so far, this method:
--
<a href="mailto:yourname@.com.au?subject="Your name page enquiry!">
<div id="emailbar" title="E-mail - Your E-mail address here"></div> </a>

-- is the only way that I can make the 'email1.gif' active, (i.e you click on the email1.gif and an e-mail goes to the address on THAT particular .html page!) but then the page does not "VALIDATE" when I go through "w3c validation"

- I would like to know how to achieve this and to also have the page "validated"??

If there is another method, then please, an example to try would be better than to ask apparently inane questions. I may then have a chance to "SOLVE" this problem!!

It may be that I am missing something in my interpretation, and I apologise if I appear short, but to date all I have been asked is questions to which I have tried to supply answers , but no one has yet given me an example to try.

Thank you.

[MMJ]

attach email.gif

[4 Me They said!]

How do I attach here?

[MMJ]

Why can't you use

<a href="mailto:yourname@.com.au?subject="Your name page enquiry!" id="emailbar">

[4 Me They said!]

MMJ,

May the good Lord bless your 'cotton socks'

Thank you very much.

IT WORKED!!!

I had not read anywhere that a .css file could be used in a .html file. I thought it could only work in a 'div' instruction.

Thank you for you patience and help.