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Reads OK in FireFox Not in Explorer

My web site reads as intended in Firefox but not in Explorer. Built it mostly in FrontPage. In particular, Explorer loses links to files and transforms what was regular text into a link (to nothing) and changes the color and size of text. Here's a link to a page from the web site:

http://www.walkaboutla.org/id16.html

I tried Explorer 7 and the same bad result. Help?
Jan 7 '07 #1
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drhowarddrfine
7,435 Expert 4TB
You will never get IE to pretend it's a modern browser without a proper doctype. Without one, IE goes into quirks mode. Use this one at the top of your pages:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

Then validate for errors . Right now you have 108. Fix those and come back.
Jan 8 '07 #2
You are very kind. I am pretty unskilled here. Made the web site with a 'site builder' from EarthLink called "Trellix" - then moved it over to BlueHost. Changed all the links for the Word files to the BlueHost server using FrontPage. That's as far as I go with skills with web page authoring. Meaning I am basically at zero. I am still confused about why the web site loads perfectly using FireFox but not in Explorer 7.0.5.

What would the correct top of the page look like in HTML? I've read articles in these web sites but I don't get it. Anyway thanks for your help.

http://validator.w3.org/check?
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol6/html_no9.htm
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-Authoring/Using-Proper-DOCTYPE-to-Fix-Browser-Compatibility-Issues/
Jan 9 '07 #3
AricC
1,892 Expert 1GB
For using a site builder 108 errors is very manageable. Fix the easy ones first then ask about the ones you're not sure about. Adding alt to images is the easiest btw.

HTH,
Aric
Jan 9 '07 #4
When I deleted variations of the following in each href line, the web site reads perfectly in Explorer and FireFox

target="tlx_new"><font color="000000" "

Thanks for your help.

Rob
Jan 14 '07 #5

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