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Sep 14, 2006, 18:30 #1
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Explain the unexplainable...
http://www.videocodelibrary.com/VCLnewDesign/index1.php
That page will not show in internet explorer, but shows just fine with firefox.
I have studied the code, and can not seem to figure out whats going on.
Help me sitepoint experts!
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Sep 14, 2006, 18:50 #2
It is a miracle that it displays in Firefox. The page contains 23 markup errors
http://validator.w3.org/
If it's your website try to correct them to start.
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Sep 14, 2006, 18:51 #3
This may be a perfect example why no one should ever allow errors in a web page. Every browser reacts differently to errors so every page needs to be validated and be error free. Just today I had a guy tell me that validation is bull---- and here is an excellent example of how important validating is.
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Sep 15, 2006, 01:36 #4
Originally Posted by drhowarddrfine
A good... 80% of the help questions on these forums could be avoided via validation, easy.
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Sep 15, 2006, 02:00 #5
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Originally Posted by deathshadow
The main point in validation is to catch well-formedness errors (missing end tags, invalidly nested elements). Those errors are easily found with XHTML, because there will be a big, fat error message instead of the page. Provided you serve it as XML, of course, <facetious>but why wouldn't you?</facetious>.
With HTML (or XHTML-P) the browser won't give you an obvious error if you miss an end tag. The page will just look odd, because the browser will try to do the best it can to salvage the situation.Birnam wood is come to Dunsinane
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Sep 15, 2006, 06:57 #6A good... 80% of the help questions on these forums could be avoided via validation, easy.
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Sep 16, 2006, 15:53 #7
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Sep 16, 2006, 18:55 #8
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try this -->
<!--
body {
background-color: #363535;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
-->
</style>
your closing comment tag "-->" is missing. That will make it appear in explorer, but I think you will still have a lot of work to do.
good luck
Dave"Three components make an entrepreneur:
the person, the idea, and the resources to make it happen."
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