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DragonTGK
03-30-2004, 04:33 AM
Hi, check out this page of my site http://www.forcefx.net/?id=gallery
you will see that having that long page of content (can't figure out how to make it into columns, tried everything..) but you will see that it messes up the layout completly.. I want it just to expand the middle section, can someone help me do this? Thanks!
shlagish
03-30-2004, 04:45 AM
WOW, that's a pretty crazy site you got there, there's more than one <html> tag, more than one DOCTYPE, table goind everywhere...
I don't understand it, sorry ...
I would just like to ask if it is a "correct" website?
Antoniohawk
03-30-2004, 05:00 AM
Whoa, I see what Shlagish means by a few extra tags in there. You might want to clean that up so we don't have to dissect it just to help you out. Other than that, I like the look of the site. Has a pixely feel to it :)

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I really don't like these new smilies
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shlagish
03-30-2004, 05:04 AM
P.s Me Neither, Ewwww
DragonTGK
04-01-2004, 06:07 AM
I have two doctypes and html tags? Not when I checked last time.. Maybe its gota do something with the style change.. I'll check it out. I think I figured out what I need to do thou, correct me if I'm wrong.. First I need to make a background image that has the lines on the sites and the grid in the middle, set that as the background of the middle TD, so it won't mess up the lines on the side when I expand it.. But I'm thinking it will still mess up my layout.. so is there some setting I could put the TD at, something like relative positioning or something?
Roy Sinclair
04-01-2004, 05:12 PM
I have two doctypes and html tags? Not when I checked last time..

No, they didn't say you've got two. They said you've got more than one, I didn't count how many I saw but you've got several.

It looks like you've got entire pages from the starting <DOCTYPE> down to the ending </html> tags embedded inside your basic page. At a guess I'd say you used a WYSIWIG editor and pasted whole pages built elsewhere into your overall template and the editor you used pasted the html for the whole page instead of just the part you expected.

If you still don't see what we're talking about just click on the link you provided above and then use the "View Source" option. Scroll down the source and find one of your insertion points and you should see it then.
sidvorak
04-01-2004, 07:29 PM
Wow...very interesting code there...:eek:
Nice look graphically though...maybe a bit over the top "Techy modern"...

I'll bet if you clean up your code your problems will be much easier to figure out. :thumbsup:

-simon
DragonTGK
04-01-2004, 09:44 PM
Roy, no I didn't your a WYSIWYG editor, but I think I know why its doing that.. I'm using PHP and its including each new page and on each of those pages I have a doctype.. So I'm gona needa take that out. Didn't realize I did that.
Roy Sinclair
04-01-2004, 09:52 PM
Tha'ts why it's often a good idea to take a look at the html output by coded pages. Of course you know that now ;) .

All those added tags could be part of the problem you're trying to fix so...