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HTML - Left Justify / Div Tags / Doctype?!
Hey everyone, i am having a problem. i have created a website that has this following basic code:
<div id="all"> <div id ="header"> </div> <div id="menubar"> </div> <div id="main"> <div id="leftmain"> </div> <div id="rightmain"> </div> </div> </div> the problem is i made the mistake of coding the website without using the: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> And now when i run the site, nothing is left justified or right justified and i cannot figure out why! (My css had "align: left" and such) but for somereason i cannot get it to work. Could someone please help me. Also how do i make my website compatible in more then one browser? Should i code it for IE or Firefox or somthing like that? Any help is greatly appreciated! Similar TutorialsHi, is possible to justify text like in this picture with html + css ? thanks Is there a way to block align justify images? HTML Code: <body> <div align="justify" style="width:450px;"> <img src="1.jpg" width="50" height="50"> <img src="2.jpg" width="50" height="50"> <img src="3.jpg" width="50" height="50"> <img src="4.jpg" width="50" height="50"> <img src="5.jpg" width="50" height="50"> <img src="6.jpg" width="50" height="50"> </div> (bottom example) i'm looking for a cheap way out of making collapse/expand code. i've learned a lot of 'ghetto' techniques n thought mayb i can use something similar to the html tricks i've learned in the past. the theory i have is.. i use the title of the collapse/expand text as a link to the text below it to open and close by using the navigating tags: Code: <a name="content">opening/closing text here</a> and the title above the content: Code: <a href="#content">Title</a> to open the area of text. now my idea of a shortcut around the whole css/html/javacript combo is to make the text below it use a Code: <font size=0>content</font> at default and have the href title link change the font size to the default 9pt but I don't know if that's even possible. Is it possible with the Code: <div> tags? and if so, using that, would i still b able to make a link like that? Is it possible to trigger the action of a form with a submit button that's outside the form tags? If so, how should this example be rescripted to make the input tag work outside the form tags? [/code] <html> <body> <form name="input" action="html_form_action.asp" method="get"> First name: <input type="text" name="FirstName" value="Mickey" /><br /> Last name: <input type="text" name="LastName" value="Mouse" /><br /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> </body> </html> [/code] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> this line seems to be at war with firefox. for some unknown reason my banner has a space between the lower body (it shouldn't). It is fine in IE and fine if the above line is not included. It seems to be adding some sort of padding into the table cells where the images are, somehow because of the domument type. ---------- Anyone have any solutions? LINK: http://uniden.zzl.org/ Again it is FINE in IE, but not if FF. HTML is Valid according to W3c Validator. Thanks in advance When I add a doctype it completely ruins my whole page layout. How can i fix this? Without: it fits my whole page and looks nice. With doctype: it squishes everything to the top. Help please. How improtant is the doctype tag? I am trying to teach myself html and am trying to figure out when to use what doctype. DOCTYPE basically tell the web browser what to expect when interpreting the html doc b/c html has been revised over the years, is that correct? Can someone please help me understand how to properly use the doctype tag and what is smart choice/ example of a specific doctype tag is and the reasoning behind why 'this' doctype tag is a smarter choice than an alternate doctype tag? Thank you! -Matt H. I have a doctype problem on my site which I cannot get rid of... Im using utf-8 have tried the below: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd"> --> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd"> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Many things are happening and I have read a lot of docs handling this... What do you suggest that I do? (Hmmm, - I need dansih characters... ) (In mysql working on the site I cannot see the correct characters... A workaround are being used...) Regards, Frank Hi simple question. I'm setting a background color on a div and when I put the Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> the background color disappears? Whys this? Heres the css Code: #content {
width: 795px;
background-color: f9dc6e;
margin: 0px;
padding: 10px;
}
Thanks I am totally confused about DOCTYPE code. My site does not have any doctype code on it and works fine, however been playing about with some jquery script and it wanted a doctype on my site to work. I have tried all the different doctypes listed on the w3 site and all make my site look strange and text/images all over the place the only way the site looks ok is without doctype. please advise the site in question is http://virtualhunterston.eu.org example test page with doctype added http://www.virtualhunterston.eu.org/...0-%20Copy1.htm What is a doctype, ive seen it in almost every html file someones , i never use it and when i remove it it doesnt do anything. so whats the point of it? to me it just looks like its taking up space. Do I have an incorrect doctype set for my new layout? www.bkriegtech.net I have a huge amount of errors when I run the w3c validator... I'm trying to re-do and validate all my 100+ websites; this one is the most recent: http:// www.sticksite.com/cook/indexNEW.html and after "Tidy" cleaned it up I now have the very top looking like this which I know is not right: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> <!-- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> --> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 1 September 2005), see www.w3.org"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Fast, nutritious meals</title> My pages are nothing fancy, I just want them to work. "Transitional" is fine; I'm not worried yet about "Strict." I'm validating at http://validator.w3.org/ Can one of you super HTML specialists please tell me how the top of my pages SHOULD look? Many thanks in advance! im using the following doctype: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> however when you add a table in I.E. it is creating a space between the top of the table and where it is inserted... why is this? any ideas how to solve this? thanks J. I didn't see an XML/XSL forum so I'm posting this here, maybe someone can help me. I'm trying something new, and it's giving me a headache. But hey it's all part of the process. Here's my site: HTML Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/layout/frontpage.xsl"?> <page lang="en_ca"> <frontpage/> </page> HTML Code: <?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"/>
<xsl:variable name="lang" select="/page/@lang"/>
<xsl:variable name="strs" select="document(concat('/strings/',$lang,'/strings.xml'))"/>
<xsl:template match="page">
<html>
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="$strs/strs/str[@id='title']"/></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/css-default.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test</h1>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Seems to work fine, but when I try to validate I get the following warning: No DOCTYPE found! Checking XML syntax only. It's clearly there. That's how other sites have done it and they validate... so what am I doing wrong? Well, this is how it started - I'm using XHTML strict but by accident I placed the doctype after the <html> tag. I've now finished the website and realised the error, so I moved it above <html>. The problem is that now in IE it looks like this: http://img187.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_350lo.jpg but in Firefox, it renders perfectly like this: http://img150.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_842lo.jpg As you can see in IE it produces a big gap between the logo and the login form. Edit Figured it out - a very stupid mistake I was floating the logo to the left and the form to the right but I'd set the logo div's width at 25% and the form div's width at 100%. Just out of curiosity - anyone know why this error wouldn't show until the doctype was enforced and why it didn't show in firefox? Hi everyone. This is my 1st msg on this forum so a BIG HELLO to everyone out there. Here's my problem. In my HTML I have the following DOCTYPE <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> and a bunch of javascript and HTML to implement a rich-text editor (this is actually a pre-written component that I'm using on the page). On Firefox the page views perfectly - no problems. On IE 6, all the buttons etc are displayed but the actual text are where the user can type is not visible so the component doesn't work properly. The strange thing is, if I change the DOCTYPE declaration to : <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> then everything works fine in both IE and FF. My problem is that I need to keep the 1st DOCTYPE and can't use the second. Would appreciate if someone could help me figure out why the page does not work in IE. The attached ZIP file contain the code in testAction.do.htm and the supporting files under testAction.do_files Im using the following doctype <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> Without this doctype my header menu does not work. However when I include it I get a display error in IE 6 and 7 and opera, Mozilla displays fine. I have the main page in a table with two rows. inside each row I have a nested table each with 2 table cells (making a simple 2 x 2 table). I then render my content inside each cell with a table itself. Every table is set to 100% in height however the internal tables only render to the browser with the height of the content so the content does not line by filling out the full table cell area. I realise this is not a great deal of info but I don't have access to image editing software to show you atm. I just wondered if you could give me any ideas as to why this might happen. so far I've checked: for any open tags. all okay none found for any table or td references in the style sheets. all okay, all accounted for in seperate classes closed with clear divs tried to align to the top. works but does not fix the height Ive tried inline styles to set the internal table height to 100%. Does not have any effect. I've even tried over riding the tables with seperate classes in css. I can set the table background to a color to show that it does indeed act on the table but setting height to 100% has zero effect to the internal table height. really baffled and confused and err...annoyed any ideas appreciated and welcome. Thanks in advance Hi Please tell whats wrong with this header for pages besides the missing meta. <?php include "include/session.php"; ?> <html><head><title>Blobbytop</title> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style_firefox.css"> <!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"><![endif]--> </head> <body> Hello I have this weird problem with the following simple code HTML Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html lang='en' xml:lang='en' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' dir="ltr">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
<script src="includes/js/general.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
Fire fox and chrome thinks that everything is fine, On internet explorer the stylesheet is not working When I take off the DOCTYPE it works in explorer as well what is my problem ? Thanks Lior |
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