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please help...wierd problem!

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:16 am
by sakaveli
hi guys, my webpage become unstable under lower screen resolutions, its hard to describe what happens exactly but the layout of the screen just falls apart and leaves my webapge looking like a joke! the page im refering to is in my signature but has ANYONE had this problem or does anyone know how to get over this??

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 8:43 am
by Draco_03
it is usually because the code isn't "well" built.
Validate your code with programs like this one

you'll see you have some errors.

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:44 am
by sakaveli
darco thanks for that reply, the webpage is really useful im new to all this (not hard to tell)

i dont know what doctype my html is! and i seem to be getting 101 errors, but that cant be right coz my system works fine in igh resolution! is tere anyway of checking my doctype?

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:10 am
by andre_c
the doctype is whatever doctype you chose. If you're not using frames (which you are not), it should be either strict or transitional. As you may have guessed, strict is more strict on the rules that apply to the html. Most of the time I chose Transitional. Good Luck.

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:38 pm
by Draco_03
here's a HTML doctype exemple (you can use)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
here's a XHTML doctype (you can use if you follow the xhtml syntax, meaning closing all tags even the <br>, wich becomes </br> and also using alt, and so on..)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
note, doc type is the first line you put in your document (well not alwyas, but in your case it is)