A Browser Specific Problems text does not appear in IE 7

Please use FireFox to check out this page:

http://www.cyberbitten.com/

Do you see the text near the top that reads "Be a part of the movement!" ?

Okay, now go look at the same page in IE 7 (possibly also IE 6, I don't
know).

The block of text is gone, yes? I can't figure out why.

I've validated this page, save for the Flash. I have asked our Flash
programmer to get back to us with some valid HTML for the Flash. Aside
from the HTML for the Flash video player, the page is valid. So why
won't the intro text appear? It appears fine in FireFox. What am I missing?

cross posted to alt.html

re: A Browser Specific Problems text does not appear in IE 7

Lawrence Krubner <lawrence@krubner.comwrote in
news:JYqdnQ2SV_t4ItzVnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d@earthlink.co m:
Remove:
<!--Header //-->

Putting something before the doctype may through IE into quirks mode,
which would also be the reason it does not center in IE.

--
BootNic Saturday May 31, 2008 6:29 PM
Man who scratch ass should not bite fingernails.
*Ancient Chinese Proverbs*

re: A Browser Specific Problems text does not appear in IE 7

Lawrence Krubner wrote:
No it wasn't. Maybe multi-posted, but not cross-posted.
<http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost>
Sorry, I don't have IE, but as BootNic says, fix your DOCTYPE area.

You also should check this:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberbitten.c om%2F>
This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
Result: Failed validation, 12 Errors

and
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2 Fwww.cyberbitten.com%2F>
Sorry! We found the following errors (8)

and
<http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php>

and
<http://tekrider.net/html/fontsize.php>

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

re: A Browser Specific Problems text does not appear in IE 7

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:My apologies. I thought I made clear in my original post that the page
was valid save to the HTML relating to the Flash video player. I have
asked our Flash programmer to get back to us with some HTML that will be
valid on this page.

-- lawrence

re: A Browser Specific Problems text does not appear in IE 7

BootNic wrote:
That fixed the problem. Thanks very much.

re: A Browser Specific Problems text does not appear in IE 7

BootNic wrote:That worked, so I'm wondering how I might have found this out on my own.
Is there a validator somewhere that would flag these kinds of issues as
potential problems?