start standard table : why is 1 extra added in beginning?

[duntuk]

this isn't that big of a deal... just kinda bugs me since i prefer strict/valid html...

at the beginning of {GALLERY} output...

this is sample html output i noticed on most themes on the *home* page ...

note the REPEATED/UNECESSARY

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<!-- Start standard table -->
<table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="maintable">

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<!-- Start standard table -->
<table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="maintable">

<!-- Start standard table -->
<table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="maintable">


<tr>
<td class="tableh1" width="80%"><b>Category</b></td>
<td class="tableh1" width="10%" align="center"><b>Albums</b></td>
<td class="tableh1" width="10%" align="center"><b>Pictures</b></td>
</tr>

...




also noticed this bug on sub pages:

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<!-- Start standard table -->
<table align="center" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="maintable">
</table>
<!-- End standard table -->

anyone know a way of preventing this...?

..thanks in advance..

[Zarsky]

Yes....at some point we need to clean up the HTML compliance of Coppermine.  It will be a bear to get it 100% compliant, but once we all have a good feel for the code, I am sure this will be done.  For now I suggest just dealing with the problems, unless they are breaking specific browsers.  In that case we will do our best to fix it.

[duntuk]

yup... that's what we've been doin'... just tweaked the template a little bit... but like you said, if it's not broken in the browser then it's not all bad...