3300 2006-05-23 11:54:30 +0000 Border Shorthand not recorgnized as valid 2007-07-19 09:27:25 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSSValidator text area CSS Validator PC Windows XP RESOLVED INVALID http://programmers.cpcug.org/ P2 minor --- 1 tmiller dave.null www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 9885 0 tmiller 2006-05-23 11:54:30 +0000 Not sure which version of the validator is being used. I use the botton on the page being validated. border:'2' 'groove' '#000066'; Returns this error Line: 128 Context : .TableCalender Invalid number : border '2' is not a border-color value : '2' 'groove' '#000066' Yet the documentation says 'border' Value: [ <'border-width'> || <'border-style'> || <color> ] | inherit Initial: see individual properties Applies to: all elements Inherited: no Percentages: N/A Media: visual 9886 1 bjoern 2006-05-23 16:33:44 +0000 If you put something into ' characters, you have a string, not a keyword, color value, or length, and without the ' characters, 2 would not be valid as you have to use a length and lengths have to have a unit identifier. 9888 2 tmiller 2006-05-23 18:36:19 +0000 It turns out that I had my syntax wrong. The error message received was not appropriate to the problem. Also, please add an example to the help that uses real values. This would have solved my problem much quicker. "||" in SQL means to concatinate together. An example like this border: 2px groove #000066; would have solved the problem much quicker. By the way I had border: '2px' 'groove' '#000066'; 15879 3 ot 2007-07-19 09:27:25 +0000 closing as "not a bug", even though it is acknowledged that the error message could be less confusing.