Hi i'm real dumb I know but heres the problem.<br />
Right check this, <br />
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thats the way its supposed to look and the client is just supposed to be able to add in text between the <p></p> tags. Works for me but occasionally it'll all go like this <br />
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Can someone put an end to this inability of mine to fix the table cell widths and show me a practical example? This is a really big problem of mine as clients always want to update their pages and rightfully so, but this happens! So could someone actually fix this page so I can see a practical example at work on a page I know. <br />
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Cheers <br />
Tha_Gsheep<!--content-->There is some stuff in your code that could confuse some browsers. Whether or not it causes your current problem, or not, it still needs fixing up. See: [link (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fxidos.servehttp.com%2Fusers%2Fgsheep%2Findex.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional&ss=1&outline=1&sp=1&verbose=1">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... &verbose=1</a><!-- m -->)].<br />
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Remove the <br> after your first meta tag. It causes about 10 errors on your page.<br />
This element is not allowed outside of the <body> ... </body> tags.<br />
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Add alt="some text" to every <img > tag, the text reflecting what is in the dispayed image. On unimportant images, like spacer elements, a minimum of alt="" is fine. For bullet-point images, alt="*" is often used. Search engines do index the alt text. The alt attribute is a required element.<br />
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This is NOT valid code:<br />
</TABLE background="images/mainremove.gif" width=268 height=298><br />
Closing tags do NOT have attributes.<br />
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Remember to "Quote" all attributes, especially all "#FFFFFF" colors, all URLs, all "50%" sizes, and any other attribute value that contains anything other than a simple "A" to "Z" or "0" to "9" value. In HTML 4.01 it is recommended to quote all attribute values, as some browsers ignore attributes where the value is not inside quotes.<br />
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Check the rest of the site for similar errors.<!--content-->Yup thanks I did that, i admit I'm bad when it comes to adding alt tags and I also fixed the <br> and </table dim=> thingie which were just blatant mistakes. <br />
But I can't add alt tags to my background images because then I get up errors. But I still have the same problem if you could help with that?<!--content-->Hmm, you have a complicated arrangement of colspan and rowspan, and I'm trying to see that you always have a total of 19 columns. I can't verify that, at the moment. Horrible though it may be, I would have nested some tables inside each other for the most complex parts. I think some widths or heights are not quite adding up somewhere, just cannot quite see where. I'm going to need to sit in a darkened room with a pencil and a big pile of scrap paper. I usually do border="3" (instead of "0") while trying to debug tables that don't line up.<br />
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There is no need to add alt attributes to the background images, you just needed them on <img > tags.<br />
You now have clean code, so any errors are logic errors, rather than typos.<br />
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Will it help to put all attribute values inside "quotes"?<br />
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Not related, but I noticed you have a duplicate content-type meta tag.<!--content-->Yup you certainly have the anilising experience. See I can only play off my experience and so I just do the 1pixel trick at either side but then still it breaks up one pixel to the right. But I really do feel challenges like this help to get a more thorough understanding of the realationships you can nuild between objects in code. Most of my experience has been learning how to make sites compatible between all browsers, and I've learned a lot about slicing from that. To just help in any way you can I'm very grateful.<br />
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Tha_Gsheep<!--content-->
Right check this, <br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://xidos.servehttp.com/users/gsheep/index.html">http://xidos.servehttp.com/users/gsheep/index.html</a><!-- m --><br />
<br />
thats the way its supposed to look and the client is just supposed to be able to add in text between the <p></p> tags. Works for me but occasionally it'll all go like this <br />
<br />
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://xidos.servehttp.com/users/gsheep/index4.html">http://xidos.servehttp.com/users/gsheep/index4.html</a><!-- m --><br />
<br />
Can someone put an end to this inability of mine to fix the table cell widths and show me a practical example? This is a really big problem of mine as clients always want to update their pages and rightfully so, but this happens! So could someone actually fix this page so I can see a practical example at work on a page I know. <br />
<br />
Cheers <br />
Tha_Gsheep<!--content-->There is some stuff in your code that could confuse some browsers. Whether or not it causes your current problem, or not, it still needs fixing up. See: [link (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fxidos.servehttp.com%2Fusers%2Fgsheep%2Findex.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional&ss=1&outline=1&sp=1&verbose=1">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... &verbose=1</a><!-- m -->)].<br />
<br />
<br />
Remove the <br> after your first meta tag. It causes about 10 errors on your page.<br />
This element is not allowed outside of the <body> ... </body> tags.<br />
<br />
<br />
Add alt="some text" to every <img > tag, the text reflecting what is in the dispayed image. On unimportant images, like spacer elements, a minimum of alt="" is fine. For bullet-point images, alt="*" is often used. Search engines do index the alt text. The alt attribute is a required element.<br />
<br />
<br />
This is NOT valid code:<br />
</TABLE background="images/mainremove.gif" width=268 height=298><br />
Closing tags do NOT have attributes.<br />
<br />
<br />
Remember to "Quote" all attributes, especially all "#FFFFFF" colors, all URLs, all "50%" sizes, and any other attribute value that contains anything other than a simple "A" to "Z" or "0" to "9" value. In HTML 4.01 it is recommended to quote all attribute values, as some browsers ignore attributes where the value is not inside quotes.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Check the rest of the site for similar errors.<!--content-->Yup thanks I did that, i admit I'm bad when it comes to adding alt tags and I also fixed the <br> and </table dim=> thingie which were just blatant mistakes. <br />
But I can't add alt tags to my background images because then I get up errors. But I still have the same problem if you could help with that?<!--content-->Hmm, you have a complicated arrangement of colspan and rowspan, and I'm trying to see that you always have a total of 19 columns. I can't verify that, at the moment. Horrible though it may be, I would have nested some tables inside each other for the most complex parts. I think some widths or heights are not quite adding up somewhere, just cannot quite see where. I'm going to need to sit in a darkened room with a pencil and a big pile of scrap paper. I usually do border="3" (instead of "0") while trying to debug tables that don't line up.<br />
<br />
<br />
There is no need to add alt attributes to the background images, you just needed them on <img > tags.<br />
You now have clean code, so any errors are logic errors, rather than typos.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Will it help to put all attribute values inside "quotes"?<br />
<br />
Not related, but I noticed you have a duplicate content-type meta tag.<!--content-->Yup you certainly have the anilising experience. See I can only play off my experience and so I just do the 1pixel trick at either side but then still it breaks up one pixel to the right. But I really do feel challenges like this help to get a more thorough understanding of the realationships you can nuild between objects in code. Most of my experience has been learning how to make sites compatible between all browsers, and I've learned a lot about slicing from that. To just help in any way you can I'm very grateful.<br />
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Tha_Gsheep<!--content-->