island597 — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:24:11 +0000

Thanks gohankid77, that killed the last bug!!

Now, since I wrote all of my code in the very forgiving IE browser and didn't validate it I now have the dubious pleasure of fixing about 170 pages

.....But at least I know the code is good! I've learned alot. Thanks everybody!!

gohankid77 — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 20:06:12 +0000

You don't have an after the tag and in the tag, you used an XHTML rule. Get rid of the "/" at the end of the tag. Then try it.

island597 — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:32:54 +0000

I got most of the bugs worked out of my html, but validation still gives 1 error for the body tag---I can't believe it :eek: I've included some of the code-Any help will be greatly appreciated !

stuff stuff stuff
(various meta tags)

etc, etc,

error: document type does not allow element "BODY" here

I don't know why it doesn't like this-I tried closing the head tag

It just gave me an another error for closing the head tag

" I'll never try to wright code in IE again...although I like it better than NN! "

Busy — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 10:06:07 +0000

can you show us your exact html (just top section) where your doc tag, html and head tags are.

instead of & use &

the % isn't the problem, it's the lack of double quotes, BUT in saying that, have you set a width (ie 100%) for the actual table tag?

Great experts / easy questions

island597 — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:48:45 +0000

Thanks for all of the great info!! Everything is now working in Netscape7.1 &
my .css validated with w3.org validator----Huraaaaahh! But my html is "sick" :eek:

My doctype is: HTML 4.01 Transitional

PROBLEMS:
error: document type does not allow element "META" here

error: document type does not allow element "LINK" here

I also have validation problems with "&" and "%"for example:

will "&" or "%" cause real problems? They wont validate, but links work fine.

Busy — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 04:28:09 +0000

I find mozilla firebird useless as far as strictness goes, it's like IE and allows all sorts of stupid junk **yeah I know, upgrade to firefox ...**

NS4.* is the best browser strictness wise for HTML but not CSS

Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 04:06:56 +0000

m3rajk wrote: netscape is stricter than mozilla? i thought ii was the other way around with mozilla being faster at aquiring the w3c updates

Thus Mozilla supports more specs. They also support MS implementations like innerHTML and others. N4 is frozen in time.

m3rajk — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 02:55:53 +0000

netscape is stricter than mozilla? i thought ii was the other way around with mozilla being faster at aquiring the w3c updates

Busy — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:37:08 +0000

as well as everything else mentioned, there are a couple of errors in that example given

times new roman needs quotes
a;hover should be a:hover (bottom line, but you have already declared this)
make font into font-family
P.1A might cause you problems (starting with a a number), change it to P.A1

If you code for Netscape (or the stricest browser you can find), 9 out of 10 times you only have to code once, coding for IE usually involves adjusting to suit other browsers.

m3rajk — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 20:15:03 +0000

i agree with suzanne: first make sure you're using something after 4.xx. it had partial css1 i think, at it's end.

second, always validate.

third realize that microsoft internet evil doesnt know what a standard is and wouldnt recognise one if it got broad-sided by one
then realize that if something works in ie, all you did was prove it works in ie. if you want to know it has cross browser: use netscape or opera.
if you want to prove latest w3c, use the latest mozilla. (browser only. if you want the latest stable...what netscape's latest will always be based on and somewhat behind, then you can use the suite.)