Having problems with Dreamweaver MX

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Having problems with Dreamweaver MX

Postby Angeljane » Sat 22 Apr, 2006 6:44 am

I am building a website (Oh at least trying I am a beginner I warn you.) I tried viewing my newly desgined site last night on a friends computer and on IE and Opera it didn't show up. therefore I decided to go back and view the Target Browser Check, which checks all browsers I know of and well i have more unsupported values and problems with the style sheet than i can throw rotten fish (sorry brain dying here.

I don't know specifically what to do

Why is this;

<link rel="stylesheet" href="emx_nav_left.css" type="text/css">

coming up as a problem?

and that is one of many which i could really do with some help with
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Postby DJGM » Sat 22 Apr, 2006 6:55 am

Please give us the URL of your website, so we know the best advice to offer you.
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Postby Antony » Sat 22 Apr, 2006 6:55 am

Which tool did you use?

And did you try to see your webpage locally (in your HDD) or remotely (published to a web server)?
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Re: Having problems with Dreamweaver MX

Postby Don_HH2K » Sat 22 Apr, 2006 10:58 am

Angeljane wrote:Why is this;

<link rel="stylesheet" href="emx_nav_left.css" type="text/css">

coming up as a problem?


Dreamweaver MX is probably attempting to validate the page against the W3C's XHTML standard. The proper way of using that tag would be as follows:

[tt]<link rel="stylesheet" href="emx_nav_left.css" type="text/css" />[/tt]

Notice how I've added a slash to the end of the tag. In HTML, this is not required, as HTML can take standalone elements not being closed. XHTML is a stricter standard that can't do the same. Therefore, a closed element (such as [tt]<element>content</element>[/tt]) can be implemented in such a tag by doing [tt]<element2 />[/tt].

There isn't any reason, though, why that wouldn't render properly in a browser either way, as most browsers will either 'fix' that for you, or back down to an HTML rendering mode (where that tag is allowed), allowing the page to be properly rendered.

As DJGM mentioned, though, it would be a good idea to post a URL to the site in question.
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Postby Angeljane » Sun 23 Apr, 2006 1:56 am

the url of the site when it is on the web is http://angel.sittingspace.com

now comes the fun part. it has problems in 3 out of 4 browsers i try, the only one it doesn't have a problem in is Firefox.

Ihave the feeling I am going to go through the stylesheet itself as I am getting all sorts of reports of it holding errrs. oy vey!
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Postby Angeljane » Sun 23 Apr, 2006 2:20 am

Antony wrote:Which tool did you use?

And did you try to see your webpage locally (in your HDD) or remotely (published to a web server)?

As I have Dreamweaver, I tended to use the preview feature previewinf in three different browsers. At the time everything worked out well. Now two of the three browsers will either show back ground or nothing at all. I had it store on USB flash, it has since been uploaded to a web server

I do get a lot of messages like certain line height and witdth properties aren't supported by the browsers, so one question? what the (bleep) is these were templates that came with the program!
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Postby Don_HH2K » Sun 23 Apr, 2006 10:22 am

I bet I know what the problem is: you didn't finish the [tt]<body>[/tt] tag. You have [tt]<body[/tt] followed by the rest of the code. Add a [tt]>[/tt] to the end of that tag, and you may be pleasantly surprised.

(For some reason, that error checks out as valid on W3C's Validator tool, though I can't understand why.)
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