Need CSS Help

Hi,
I ran it through this validator
jigsaw w3 dot org
and it came up with no errors. Can you list the error's you are getting. You should end the last rule for a given selector with a semi colon. Even though it passes one of the browsers ignores the immediate code around it.
Tony La,

When ever I am working with web page design, html /CSS I do all my work in Microsoft's Visual Web Developer. This software validates all of your code on the fly as you write it. If you have a typo or if you try to use a cs class or ID that hasn't been defines it will flag that line of code in your page and tell you what the problem is. Bottom line is that when you finish a page you know that it validates because it is being checked constantly as you write it.

try
<td style="background-image (images/bg-top.jpg)"></td>

For the background issue: you will need to add a class to that td in the HTML; e.g.
<td class="topper">

then in the CSS:
.topper {background: url(images/bg-top.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;}

Invent another class name for the other bg.

For the warning just use the 'normal' closing > instead of />.

Hello Istvan, I thought everything was fixed, actually, the 2 errors were indeed fixed, and then 2 other errors popped up if you check here http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

I attempted to do what you suggested and add classes for those, but for some reason failed, could be a small mistake I made. There is a background color in the html which interferes with css I think. I have no idea, so I put backup online right after I fixed the other 2 errors per your suggestion, and I'm basically trying to do what you suggested on those other 2 backgrounds and can't get it corrected. Can you check and help? Here is my page http://www.earn-income-at-home.info and my css is here http://www.earn-income-at-home.info/css/mystyles.css

So basically there was 4 backgrounds to fix , not just 2, its puzzling because when I ran my page in the validator the first time, it said 2 errors, after the fix, it still says 2 errors but not the same images...

Does anybody know how to fix this?

UPDATE: I finally narrowed it out to 1 error left to fix. I simply cannot fix this last error with the usual fix given, I tried many times and only thing I achieved was messing up my template for some unknown reason.

I ask for help because I simply cannot fix this last issue.

Cab Anyone Help out?

Sorry, I didn't see this last night.

This is a typical example why the thml and css should be completely separated - if you want valid code.
(Note: most of the IM web sites don't care at all about validation as long as it displays OK-ish in browsers...)

To be honest, I don't really understand your preoccupation with that one error - while having a webpage "designed" with tables and full of inline style declarations inside the html code.

If using badly templates with non-valid code - then live with it... or re-write the whole thing, including the stylesheet that has syntax error in almost every line.

Yes, trying to "fix" something that was wrongly built from the beginning will result in new errors popping up as you progress...

My advice? Try to set up your priorities: perfectly valid HTML/CSS code and the geeks are happy but no other advantage... or invalid code but high conversion rate of the traffic.

If that webpage was mine, instead of obsessing with one single HTML error I'd go to the Copywriting forum and would ask for a professional review of the content (= the copy, the text) of my page. But I am aware we are all different...

(P.S. btw, I am coming from a webdesign background and I am able to write perfectly valid html/css. However, a non-valid squeeze page of mine has been converting at 72.3% with targeted traffic. So...)

Thank you all for your help which eventually led me to a solution. I needed to add a style in the html like so...

style="background-image: url('images/bg.jpg');


Bernard