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gcapp
09-26-2002, 04:37 PM
Ok, I hope someone can answer this because i can't figure it out.

I have asp pages that I am viewing in Internet Explorer 6.0 and Netscape 4.72.

Everything is fine in IE, but in NN, one of my pages will not show at all. So I was wondering if someone coudl take a look and explain to me why this is happening.

The url is: Bed & Breakfasts (http://www.enchantedmountains.org/asp/bed-and-breakfast.asp)

If you first view it in IE you can see what the page looks like, then if you have NN 4.72, try to view it.

I'm puzzled.

Help!

Gary
BigDaddy
09-26-2002, 06:28 PM
Is Netscrap 4.7 able to handle flash?

If that's not it, I'm guessing you probably have a missing </table> or </td> tag. That would cause most of or all of a page not to display. IE is more forgiving and will display if missing some closing brackets.
Roy Sinclair
09-26-2002, 10:34 PM
Originally posted by BigDaddy
Is Netscrap 4.7 able to handle flash?

If that's not it, I'm guessing you probably have a missing </table> or </td> tag. That would cause most of or all of a page not to display. IE is more forgiving and will display if missing some closing brackets.

Among several other HTML problems like script tags between the </head> and the <body> tags your guess is correct, he's missing a </table> tag. HTML Tidy shows a number of things that ought to be fixed, more people should learn about html validation tools like Tidy because they'd find things like this much easier.

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ for more information.
whammy
09-26-2002, 11:54 PM
I sometimes use the HTML Tidy built into HTML-KIT (which I really like).
gcapp
09-27-2002, 01:38 PM
Whammy,
I went to HTML Tidy's site and downloaded it but I can't figure out how to install it. First, where should I put the file - in what folder? And what do I do next to get it running. I usually use FrontPage for my html, so how would i use it with that?

Any info you can give would be appreciated.

Gary
whammy
09-28-2002, 12:45 AM
I am not sure, I would never use FrontPage, personally - I just despise it. :(

If I remember right, HTML Tidy was hard to configure by itself... I just use the HTML Tidy plugin that comes with HTML-KIT (which in my opinion is a far superior application to code in than FrontPage).

The main reason I don't like FrontPage is that it:

1. inserts incorrect code and useless code into your scripts
2. uses proprietary language (see webbot) which, in my opinion, just confuses people more - since they aren't learning anything about server-side scripting by using it - so they aren't any more knowledgable than if they had never seen a form.

End of rant!

If you want to try HTML-KIT, it's free at http://www.chami.com/html-kit/