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Well I finally did a makeover of my homepage in EW.  This is just a collection of links that I keep on my desktop so as long as it works (which it does) I'm happy, however, I passed it through Validation and got 83 errors. 

Almost all of the errors are realated to the links because they have Ampersands in the URL.  Even the link to the Mircrosoft Discussion Site uses an Ampersand so if this causes so many validation problems, is there a way to fix it?

Thanks Corey.........I made all the changes and have whittled it down to 2 validation errors now, one of which I have no idea  how to fix. 

 The following tag is what is giving the error:
<select name="menu"
              onchange="location=document.jump.menu.options[document.jump.menu.selectedIndex].value;"
              value="GO">

 It says that that "value" is not permitted for the select tag when using 4.01 transitional.  Any ideas on how to fix that?

Hi Corey, the source code for this error is as follows:

<form name="jump">

              <p align="center">
    <select name="menu"
              onchange="location=document.jump.menu.options[document.jump.menu.selectedIndex].value;"
              value="GO">
<option value="http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?pg=1&amp;lang=en&amp;cr=US&amp;guid=&amp;sloc=en-us&amp;dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general&amp;fltr=">
    MS Oulook Discussion</option>
 <option value="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.smtp_nntp">
    Discussions in SMTP &amp; NNTP</option>
  </select></form>

There were quite a few more option value= entries but I didn't want to fill the page with links.  I changed the word GO to lower case but EW must have switched it back.

Hi Corey,

I made those changes to no avail. I tried several different jump menus but I still get errors from them so I guess I can let it go or remove the form.  Thanks for your help

Javascripts won't validate--and aren't supposed to.  Validation tools just aren't sophisticated enough to tell the difference between a well formed javascript and bad code.

Anyway, here is the code for a jump menu that really zings...thought you might like to add it to your arsenal of code snippets.  

You can tell the javascript to open the link in  a new window or not with a simple change to the hyperlink:
<option value="new|your_page1.html">Your page 1---Opens a new Window</option>
<option value="|your_page2.html">Your page 2---No new Window</option>

There is even a way to control the size and toolbars of the new window (if you choose to have the jump link open a new window):
 window.open(targetedURL,targetedWindow,'toolbar=1,location=1,directories=1,status=1,menubar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=700,height=400');

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
<!--www.texaswebdevelopers.com
function TWDddredirect(twdNav) {
splitItUp = twdNav.options[twdNav.selectedIndex].value.split("|");
targetedWindow = splitItUp[0];
targetedURL    = splitItUp[1];
 if (targetedWindow!=='') {
 window.open(targetedURL,targetedWindow,'toolbar=1,location=1,directories=1,status=1,menubar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=700,height=400');
 twdNav.selectedIndex = 0;
} else {
window.open(targetedURL,'_top')
 }
}
//-->
</script>
<form action="../">
<select onchange="TWDddredirect(this)">
<option>-- Select a Discussion --</option>
<option value="MSOutlookDiscussion|http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?pg=1&amp;lang=en&amp;cr=US&amp;guid=&amp;sloc=en-us&amp;dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general&amp;fltr">MS Outlook Discussion---Opens a new Window</option>
<option value="|http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.smtp_nntp">Discussions in SMTP &amp; NNTP---No new Window</option>
</select>
</form>

Hi TWD........very interesting to know that about  Javascripts.  I will give this a try tonight and post back as to how it works for me.  Thanks for your help.

gskywalkers