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<body bgcolor="#030184" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" text="#00C6FF" link="#BCF0FF" alink="#BCF0FF" vlink="#BCF0FF">
<table height="100%" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
<tr width="500" height="100%">
<td background="images/mid-bg.gif" valign="top" align="left" height="100%" width="500">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">
<tr height="19">
<td height="19" width="164" background="images/top-img.gif"> </td>
<td height="19" width="336" background="images/top-bg.gif" valign="center"><font size="-2">[ <a href="http://pb.2ya.com/ntwk/" alt="network">.NTWK</a> ] [ <a href="http://pb.2ya.com/main/">.MAIN</a> ] [ <a href="http://pb.2ya.com/amid/" alt="Anime/Manga images directory">.IMGS</a> ][ <a href="http://pb.2ya.com/t100/" alt="top 100">.T100</a> ]</font>
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</tr><tr><td background="mid-img.jpg" height="196" width="500" colspan="2" valign="bottom"><form name="drop_down" method="POST"> <select name="selections" size="1" onChange="location.href=options[selectedIndex].value; return true;">
<option selected="selected">.Main Navigation</option>
<option >---------------------</option>
<option value="index.php">home</option>
<option value="news.php">news</option>
<option value="rants.php">rants</option>
<option value="staff.php">staff profiles</option>
<option value="history.php">history</option>
<option value="index.html">support us</option>
</select></form></td></tr>
</table>
this text wont show up
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<td height="100%" bgcolor="#030184" valign="top"><font color=#030184 size="-1">x</font>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#ffffff" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" align="left">
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<td background="images/tbl-bg.gif" align="center" width="100"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1" face="fixedsys">Random Stuff</td>
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<td valign="top" align="center">
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the text wont show up there, even though the table tags are nested and ended properly. the real page is here:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/pb2ya/index.html (let the ad disappear before looking)
ok, some1 PLZ tell me why the text will not show up, and how i can fix it