CSS validator link and CSS3 profile

Many web authors I know will use the W3C validators to prove that they have taken the time to ensure their sites comply with the W3C standards – and will often put links on their sites themselves to demonstrate this both to clients and visitors.

For some it can be an important part of proving compliance with legislation relating to disability access- using standards based CSS styles and layout on your HTML content can help screenreaders make sense of content compared to legacy tables and frames based methods.

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CSS Friendly and Visual Studio 2010

I spent a considerable amount of time trying to work out why I was able to correctly view treeview controls using the excellent CSS Friendly Control Adapters whilst working locally in Visual Studio 2010, only to find the same project when uploaded reverted to using nested tables in the markup.

The CSSFriendly.dll file was in the bin, the CssFriendlyAdapters.browser file was correctly present in the App_Browsers directory, but still it refused to render using UL and LI controls. Run the project locally and all was correct.

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