Problem with my site displaying in I.E.

  • Thread starter Thread starter primegraffix
  • Start date Start date
P

primegraffix

Hey guys,
I can't figure out what's wrong with the site I just designed for a
local brewery. It displays fine in Firefox & Netscape but when I type
the address in Internet Explorer it's just a blank white page. The
title comes up but no content. I can even view the source code! Can
somebody please take a look and give some suggestions when you have
time? Thanks in advance!
Primegraffix

http://www.seabrightbrewery.com
 
Hey guys,
I can't figure out what's wrong with the site I just designed for a
local brewery. It displays fine in Firefox & Netscape but when I type
the address in Internet Explorer it's just a blank white page. The
title comes up but no content. I can even view the source code! Can
somebody please take a look and give some suggestions when you have
time? Thanks in advance!
Primegraffix

http://www.seabrightbrewery.com
Click to expand...


Tried using http://validator.w3.org/?
 
I did, but I've had pages not validate that still work on all browsers.
This page isn't even coming up. I've never seen a blank page display
that displays perfectly on mozilla or netscape. I use flash for my
navigation and header...I'm thinking maybe that is the problem?
 
What's with all the backslashes?
eg...
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
&
<param name="movie" value="flash/header.swf" />
And so on?
 
I'm using dreamweaver, I assumed the code would be fine? Thats not
normal. Thanks I'll clear that up. You think thats whats doing it?
 
Those make it xHTML standard compliant, and won't affect the IE rendering.
Any tag that doesn't require a closing tag should have a /> at the end to
denote self-closure.

Dan

BruceM wrote on Thu, 11 May 2006 17:22:21 +0930:
 
Hey guys,
I can't figure out what's wrong with the site I just designed for a
local brewery. It displays fine in Firefox & Netscape but when I type
the address in Internet Explorer it's just a blank white page. The
title comes up but no content. I can even view the source code! Can
somebody please take a look and give some suggestions when you have
time? Thanks in advance!
Primegraffix

http://www.seabrightbrewery.com
Click to expand...

I did View Source, saved the HTML (it's all there) to my hard drive, and
then removed the style block in the head - ta da! Look carefully - you
missed a closing comment tag out, so IE treats it all as a comment from the
style block after <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->. In this case, IE is being
very strict and the other browsers are lax in handling the HTML. Simply add
a --> to the end of the 2nd style block in the head section and it'll work.

Dan
 
Primegraffix said:
I did, but I've had pages not validate that still work on all browsers.
This page isn't even coming up.
Click to expand...

Just because some pages appear to work when they do not validate does
not mean that all pages will work when they do not validate. Fix any
errors, then see what happens.

Note: you are using a xHTML 1.1 DOCTYPE. This is usually inadvisable.
I suggest HTML 4.01 or xHTML 1.0 Strict.

Note: you are using many HTML features that are deprecated. Use CSS
instead.

Note: you have the DOCTYPE and HTML tags on the same line. Might this
be a problem?
 
Back
Top