Re: FN-FORUM: CSS Guru?

date posted 27th August 2005 09:45

Adam Dyson wrote:
> Tony Crockford wrote:
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>>There's a major validation problem - which is probably causing issues:
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>>is what you should have and
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>>is what you have.
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>>closing the html tag like that probably is a very bad idea and is
>>likely causing IE to go quirky.
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> I noticed that earlier from the w3 xhtml validation, and forgot to
> mention it. Sorry. A book that Tony recently recommended (Stylin' with
> CSS) points out how incredibly ironic it is that the link to the very
> xhtml standards document that insist that ALL tags are closed cannot
> actually have a closing / on it.

That's very, very wrong. The point is on your page you're closing the
html tag twice, which is illegal. eg