Compatability across browsers?

by **elireed** on Thu May 22, 2008 10:26 am

I use Firefox to display changes to the simple HTML pages I create. They are so simple they certainly should work in any browser. However, this latest page I created will not display in IE at all.

I would not care except clearly a lot of people use IE and will not be able to view the page. Presumably this is a problem with my code, or with my IE??

I have uploaded the page here http://elistest.50webs.com/john.htm and a copy of the HTML here http://elistest.50webs.com/john.txt

Thanks for any guidance

by **leonard** on Thu May 22, 2008 10:43 am

hi elireed

You should embed your code in a html-tag. If firefox would be strict, it would not display it either.

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Page description</title> </head> <body> ->>> paste your code into here </body> </html>

cheers!
- leonard

by **elireed** on Thu May 22, 2008 1:38 pm

Hi.. Thanks I should have tried that - though I'm sure I've not put the html tag in before and it's worked, and certainly not the doctype.

I better do things by the book next time

I thought the HEAD and BODY tags were obsolete in the newest HTML?

by **elireed** on Thu May 22, 2008 1:45 pm

Sorry - I found the error. I hadn't closed the <title> tag in the first version. Firefox doesn't mind but clearly IE does.

Otherwise, IE is able to read the html without the <html> tag (and body and head tags presumably)

Although it's good practise to....

by **leonard** on Thu May 22, 2008 1:54 pm

suggestion:

install the firefox addon "WebDeveloper"

One of many features is a syntax-checker whith which you can validate HTML and CSS:

cheers!
- leonard

by **elireed** on Thu May 22, 2008 1:57 pm

Thanks... that looks useful

I love Firefox

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