[CS-FSLUG] html fine in Linux, but one word per line in "Internet Explorer"

Tue Sep 25 03:50:01 CDT 2012

If I do 'view source' on the original link you sent through, none of
the code you've posted below actually appears.

What I can see is this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
... (skipped for brevity) ...
</HEAD>
<!--
<BODY LANG="en-US" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" DIR="LTR">
-->
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080"
background="pics/back1.jpg">
<DIV TYPE=HEADER>
	<P STYLE="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.06in"><SPAN
ID="Frame1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="position: absolute; top: 0in; left: 0in;
width: 0.26in; height: 0.15in; border: none; padding: 0in; background:
#ffffff">                         <SDFIELD TYPE=DATETIME
SDNUM="1033;1033;MM\/DD\/YY">07/09/11</SDFIELD></P>
</DIV>

For it to be correct HTML, you need to change the last section to
either look like this:

<DIV TYPE=HEADER>
	<P STYLE="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.06in"><SPAN
ID="Frame1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="position: absolute; top: 0in; left: 0in;
width: 0.26in; height: 0.15in; border: none; padding: 0in; background:
#ffffff">        </SPAN>                 <SDFIELD TYPE=DATETIME
SDNUM="1033;1033;MM\/DD\/YY">07/09/11</SDFIELD></P>
</DIV>

(with the '</SPAN>' added just before the '<SDFIELD ... ' section)

OR you need to change it to look like this:

<DIV TYPE=HEADER>
	<P STYLE="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.06in"><SPAN
ID="Frame1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="position: absolute; top: 0in; left: 0in;
width: 0.26in; height: 0.15in; border: none; padding: 0in; background:
#ffffff">                         <SDFIELD TYPE=DATETIME
SDNUM="1033;1033;MM\/DD\/YY">07/09/11</SDFIELD> </SPAN> </P>
</DIV>

(with the '</SPAN>' added just after the '</SDFIELD>' tag).

Which way around you do it depends on what the SPAN was trying to
achieve in the first place - if you don't know, then I'd guess option
2 is the right one.

Davo

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:38 AM,  <davidm at hisfeet.net> wrote:
> You are probably right, and I am jujst not understanding.  So far as I can
> see the only "span" in the header of that file is "colspan" in the
> following set of lines:
>
> <div align="center">
> <table border="0">
> <tbody><tr><td colspan="3">
> <center><h1>"Harvesting Harvesters"</h1></center>
> <center><img src="fishlive.gif" alt="Christian site."></center>
> <!-- Place your header in H4 below -->
>
> Or is the error in the index file:index2.php ???
>
> What should the Span  entry look like?
>
> Dave MCM
>
>
>
>
>> You have an unterminated SPAN element in the 'header' div:
>>
>> <DIV TYPE=HEADER>
>>       <P STYLE="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.06in"><SPAN
>> ID="Frame1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="position: absolute; top: 0in; left: 0in;
>> width: 0.26in; height: 0.15in; border: none; padding: 0in; background:
>> #ffffff">                         <SDFIELD TYPE=DATETIME
>> SDNUM="1033;1033;MM\/DD\/YY">07/09/11</SDFIELD></P>
>> </DIV>
>>
>> i.e.
>> Start DIV
>> Start P
>> Start SPAN - no end SPAN ( </SPAN> )
>> Start + End SDFIELD
>> End P
>> End DIV
>>
>> I'm not sure whether the  </SPAN> is supposed to be before or after
>> the <SDFIELD> section, but it certainly needs to close before the </P>
>> tag.
>>
>> Firefox + Konqueror have managed to take a best-guess and display it
>> as intended, IE is displaying it a bit more literally than the others.
>>
>> Davo
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:26 AM,  <davidm at hisfeet.net> wrote:
>>> I edited an html file in Linux, and it show just fine Firefox, or in
>>> Konqueror.  But in Windows using Internet explorer it comes out showing
>>> only one word per lione.  Makes iot almost impossible to read.  What can
>>> I
>>> do?
>>>
>>> Hope spomeone can help me with this, I've just sent a letter using some
>>> links to the affected file, but I can't see anything wrong with the
>>> "source" reading.  The file is:http://www.hisfeet.net/debt.html
>>>
>>> Dave McMullen
>>>
>>>
>>>
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