working good with firefox and a problem with explorer!

timoz · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Egypt

I used a template and i made some modification on it it is working fine with firefox but not working good with explorer.
can any one help me

simply visit
http://www.khaledaziz.com/gallery_1.html
click on any photo you like
a new page called photo.html will load the problem is in this page (photo.html)
works good with forefox and fail with explorer.

any idea how to fix silly code problem.

Thanks
Timoz

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4288 Location: MS

Your main page has lots of coding errors that should be fixed and doing so may just fix your problem.

CSS ERRORS
HTML ERRORS 103 Errors, 50 warnings.

You have to code your pages to the DocType you are using: XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Your links are not fully formed either and IE is probably not picking them up as you would expect. Do NOT use uppercase letters and do not use compound words without including the character entity for "space": "%20" (without quotes)

It is best with your DocType to keep your folder/file names/tags and attributes in lowercase. All folders/files that use compound names should use the underscore or hyphen between the words.

Let me know when you have the corrections done and I bet IE will behave. You'll even make Firefox and other browsers "happy". Razz

timoz · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Egypt

Thanks for being fast in reply...
but I am new to this web staff..! Please make it more simple for me Smile

thanx

I am checking the links of the validation now... as being a rookie in this web stuff I feel little bit confused.

I will try to do fix it up and get back to you

Thanx
TiMoz

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4288 Location: MS

OK, TiMoz. Just do your best on the errors. Keep checking the validation of your CSS and HTML as fixing one error could clear up lots more. Post back when you feel you've gone as far as you can.

The main thing is the links problem.

timoz · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Egypt

I corrected a lot of things however still finding errors! I am afraid I don't understand what they mean, or how to correct them.. I think I need a some help here!

Can you please recheck and give me a hint!?

Thanks
TiMoz

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4288 Location: MS

OK. Can help you on errors, but I keep getting a re-direct to another site. Took me four times to finally get your page checked. Are you having problems or do you have a redirect written in your .htacess file? I am redirected to http://www.dreamtemplate.com/offer.shtml at times which means either your site has been hacked or you have a problem if this isn't what you want to happen.

It could be something with the validator tool, but haven't time to track it down.

These type errors:

line 67 column 98 - Warning: <img> element not empty or not closed
line 72 column 95 - Warning: <img> element not empty or not closed

just mean that you have to close the image tag because of the DocType you are using. Just close the tag with a space and a "/". Example:

<img src="gallery1/thumb_003.jpg" width="100" height="100" border="0" />

You have many of these done correctly already. Many image tags are like this:

<img src="gallery1/thumb_003.jpg" width="100" height="100" border="0" > where you have a space correctly, but no "/".

These warning indicate that you failed to close an open tag somewhere:

line 63 column 1 - Warning: missing </div>
line 130 column 1 - Warning: missing <tr>

This one means you have inserted a table improperly and have missing tags:

line 130 column 1 - Warning: discarding unexpected <table>

Example is here:

</tr>


<table width="777" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#474747">

When it says unexpected, it expected other proper tag closing before closing:

line 150 column 1 - Warning: discarding unexpected </table>

These are not allowed in table tags with DocType being used. Use CSS to insert these:

line 15 column 1 - Warning: <body> attribute "bgcolor" has invalid value "bg"
line 18 column 1 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "background"
line 30 column 1 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "background"

These I told you about. Your files and folders are not allowed to use compound names unless you insert the space character entity "%20". Better not to name folders/files with compound names, but use underscore or hyphen. IE will have a problem with these links for sure:

line 67 column 1 - Warning: <a> escaping malformed URI reference
line 82 column 1 - Warning: <a> escaping malformed URI reference
line 97 column 1 - Warning: <a> escaping malformed URI reference

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 2625

Why don't you use something like Lightbox and do away with all the extra pages and the IE display errors of those pages?

timoz · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Egypt

Thank you pals...
Lightbox has done exactly what i want!

I am happy with that solution for the time being however I need to know more about web tools , web developing & designing.

TiMoz

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4288 Location: MS