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**bjp** · Jan 10, 2009, 08:26

total nurd- just wanted to ask how come i got the 1st 2 lines of html of the Most Basic Web Page in the World on top of the screen when i brought the saved page back from folder?
following ian lloyds book using windows xp/notepad/IE
thanks bjp

**Mittineague** · Jan 10, 2009, 14:45

Hi bjp, welcome to the forums,

I don't know exactly what the problem is, but I have found that when someting appears in the wrong place it's often because the mark-up isn't nested correctly. For example

HTML Code:

<table>
  <tr>This should be in the table
    <td>some more text</td>
  </tr>
</table>

The "This should be in the table" might appear anywhere depending on how the browser "guesses" where to put it.

I doubt if your problem is like the example, but if you go to the validator http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input and paste in the page's code and click check, you may get a helpful error message. If not please post the mark-up here.

**Duzero** · Jan 10, 2009, 16:34

Can you explain your problem more descriptively? I read your post through 3 times and I can't understand your problem.

**bigdaisy** · Jan 13, 2009, 01:29

Hi,

Give us the code or a link to the page. Then we can see the problem

Mike

**Mittineague** · Jan 13, 2009, 01:56

I have the free sample chapters of version 1 of the book, and I don't have the files from the code archive. But the code in the book is
basic.html

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>The Most Basic Web Page in the World</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>The Most Basic Web Page in the World</h1>
<p>This is a very simple web page to get you started.
Hopefully you will get to see how the markup that drives
the page relates to the end result that you can see on
screen.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph, by the way. Just to show how it
works.</p>
</body>
</html>

Does the code in your file look like that?
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Originally Posted by bjp

i got the 1st 2 lines of html ..... on top of the screen

Do you mean this mark-up is visible in the rendered page?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Make sure the code doesn't have entities for the "angles". i.e.
<!DOCTYPE or &#60;!DOCTYPE

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