Web site bugs - Displaying issue

Clorinde · #1 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 10:53

Hi all,
My web site http://www.clorinde.org appears messed up when using browsers other than IE (IE in a mac shows similar problems). I know there must be plenty of bugs in the code so I will eventually need professional help (in fact I'm no web designer).
I ran my web site through a validator but I can't figure out how to fix it.

I was hoping that you could help me sorting out the major problems.
In particular there's a scrolling text box in the main page which is all over the place and drives me mad!
Would you be able to provide me some help considering that I know very little about coding?

Please! Please! PLease!

bee_bo · #2 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 12:14

hi there,

first thing to try would to put a doc type at the beginning of your code, if you don't have one of these the browser will default to "quirks" mode and is a little on the unpredictable side.

In the validator, it tells you information about each error/warning i.e what it is and where it is within the page.

if you have a look at:

http://www.webforumz.com/webforumz-c...hing-teach.htm

there are some good html/css sites that will kick you off with all the information you need.

hope this helped,

B xx

Clorinde · #3 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 12:31

Right,

Would you be able to tell me more about this doc type?
Can you give me an example?

I know I'm asking you what 1+1 is, but I'm kind of lost, here...

Thanks for your help!!!

moojoo · #4 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 12:45

IE 5 Mac sucks and you really shouldn't worry about it. Especially since it is no longer supported or developed anyway.

As for Doc Types. The Doc Type specifies the mode/type of document you are using such as XHTML Transitional or Strict, HTML Transitional or Strict etc.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Compumaniac12 · #5 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 12:50

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

is as its says (Strict)
This may fix your problem, but mostly likely it will fill up the validator with a million errors

i recommend this one
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">

You will want to place that code Prior to the first <html> tag in your code
This will tell the browser what coding it should be reading.

moojoo · #6 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 13:12

It wa sjust an example. True the code syntax can be doc type specific. i.e. things in XHTML Strict may not be appropriate for HTML Transitional etc..

Clorinde · #7 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 14:32

So, what you are saying is that I should enter that code as it is at the beginning of each page?

bee_bo · #8 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 14:59

in a word, yes.

the code on every page needs to begin by telling the browser which language to use, otherwise it'll revert back to good old quircks mode

Clorinde · #9 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 15:14

That's great, thank you guys.
I really hope it'll sort out most of the issues.

Why, though there's that web site (http://www.w3.org) in the code?

moojoo · #10 (**permalink**) Aug 14th, 2006, 15:15

Because the W3C writes the specs.

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