Not validating! Page not showing up in IE! Help??

[Pat Chuprina]

Hello all.

I updated my blog to the latest version of pixelpost available, did a few small changes, and added captcha and akismat. While knowing very little code I think i was able to marry both in my Index php.

To my horror when I tried to validate my xhtml it came up with several errors!
Like:

# Warning Line 26 column 81: character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data.

...ID=a200277cf0660bfae3554e1ee4e00854"><<</a> |

and:

# Error Line 32 column 5: end tag for "span" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.

</div>

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

Were would I find these lines to fix?

Also to my horror it would appear that my blog page is no longer displaying in Internet Explorer, although it does show up in Firefox, and Safari. Is this related to the above problem? Any help for all of the above problems would be graciously accepted.

Thanx in advance
Patrick Chuprina
chuprinastudios.com/blog

[Pat Chuprina]

Here is an update:

I was able to fix the first problem, it was relatively easy. For the other two:

1. Error Line 32 column 5: end tag for "span" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.

</div>

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

✉
2. Info Line 25 column 0: start tag was here.

<span class="menu">

I have not been able to find them on my "image template.html" at all! I'd appreciate any help. And I guess my biggest problem is that my page does not show up on Internet explorer.

Thanx in advance
Patrick Chuprina
http://www.chuprinastudios.com/blog

[Vernon.Trent]

to your point 2. (see bold text) add </span> to your image template.


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</span>

</div>

[Pat Chuprina]

Thankyou very much for your help. Looking back I think I even understand the validation error message now! My blog also seems to be working well with Internet explorer running on a xp machine.

I have one more concern: On internet explorer 5.2.3 running on my Mac, the title of my blog seems to be centered on my title bar, pushing down my menu items partially off the title bar. Is there an easy fix which would not mess with any other browser renderings? Is it worth it considering my usage for that browser is just over 3% of my viewership?

Thanx again
Patrick Chuprina
http:/www.chuprinastudios.com/blog

[blinking8s]

how much of that 3% is you? thats a pretty high % for IE5 compared to what I have seen/studied in the past.

IE on a Mac isnt supported anymore, MS doesnt even offer it...if I find some time I can probably figure out a fix, but I really wouldnt worry about it to be honest. Many many other pages look mest up on IE for mac.