Dragon of Ice — Sun, 29 May 2005 02:11:51 +0000

I got rid of the missing div, that wasn't the problem. It doesn't have the problem any more, and I didn't change anything there... I dunno what was up with the thing.

As far as the messy code, I wasn't thinking logically. I got into a kind of coding frenzy and just kept typing! I really like it better when I take it slowly (saves a lot of frustration) but sometimes it's just hard to stop when you're "in the zone." Not so much "in the zone" with ideas and skill, but "in the zone" on finishing something.

I have a stylesheet that imports all my other stylesheets, and I use @import, but it doesn't seem to be working!

What was wrong with my doctype?

Also, what were my li tag issues?

Thanks, BTW. You're a huge help!

Roo — Sat, 28 May 2005 22:27:53 +0000

You had li tag issues too.

Corrected valid code displays correctly in Firefox and IE6:

Cambridge Community Library

New Library
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi aliquam, nunc vitae volutpat ullamcorper, elit dolor viverra magna, vitae interdum ante augue nec ligula. Integer quis neque. Donec a metus nec libero auctor nonummy. Nam est erat, varius sit amet, dictum sit amet, fermentum in, metus. Vivamus id turpis vitae lectus egestas iaculis. Proin elementum, tellus nec ornare elementum, purus pede convallis magna, et elementum urna ante eu sapien.

Header
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi aliquam, nunc vitae volutpat ullamcorper, elit dolor viverra magna, vitae interdum ante augue nec ligula. Integer quis neque.

design by orangedrop

{XHTML} {CSS} {WAI AAA} {U.S. Section 508}

Roo — Sat, 28 May 2005 22:08:00 +0000

First how about correcting your doctype info?

Next....are you wanting to import an additional stylesheet with @import?

@import "whatever.css";

Write clean code to start with! You won't be driving yourself nuts with cleanup!

Roo — Sat, 28 May 2005 21:58:57 +0000

Exactly....see that missing closing div.

Not closing tags, closing tags in the wrong order, missing quote marks, are among the most common errors.

Dragon of Ice — Sat, 28 May 2005 20:00:31 +0000

I fixed it. I had a Quote:
Line 12, column 6: end tag for "head" which is not finished

Most likely, You nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For example ... is not acceptable, as must be closed before . Acceptable nesting is: ...

Another possibility is that you used an element (e.g. 'ul') which requires a child element (e.g. 'li') that you did not include. Hence the parent element is "not finished", not complete.

I understand what it's saying, but I don't think either of those are the problem!

Dragon of Ice — Sat, 28 May 2005 19:52:26 +0000

I know the code's messy, I haven't really goten into cleaning it up yet. I don't see why that would make the img display, and I tried it and it didn't.

Also, it's not a matter of transparency, it's a matter of displaying the img. It just doesn't show up!

Roo — Sat, 28 May 2005 04:13:05 +0000

Here is where you have a missing closing div tag:

That needs to be:

AyntRyte — Sat, 28 May 2005 04:11:08 +0000

Sorry, that's what I meant. Tried a gif or a png hack to test the transparency?

BTW, I like the design.

Roo — Sat, 28 May 2005 04:10:27 +0000

Validate your code.

You are missing a closing div tag somewhere in all of those nested divs.

You have no doctype specified, you have no charecter encoding meta tag.

Dragon of Ice — Sat, 28 May 2005 03:49:16 +0000

Yes it does, it just doesn't support png transparency.