failed w3c validation - troubles with IE

hulkie · Post by **hulkie** » Thu 16. Aug 2007, 06:48

Hello friends of phpwcms,

i did a complete rework of my family homepage (runs 1.33) and whilst firefox displays it ok, in IE it looks crap (I dont mean png-troubles)! When I did the w3c validation I got 32 errors - a lot of them are missing '<' or '>' tags. When I check my templates, those alleged missing tags are there.

http://www.famhofer.at

could someone please have a look and shed some light on this and give me some hints how to resolve that problem? Many thanks in advance!

P.s.:It seems I am not the only one with that valitation problem - phpwcms-docu.de has 102 errors!

DeXXus · Post by **DeXXus** » Thu 16. Aug 2007, 07:24

Download/install this extension for Firefox, revisit the page in your browser and click the Total Validator button to get results that are pretty helpful in understanding the issues:

http://www.totalvalidator.com/tool/extension.html

hulkie · Post by **hulkie** » Thu 16. Aug 2007, 08:43

Hello DeXXus,
thanks for advice - total vaildator is great!
I fixed some <tr height...>'s .. now it looks nearly acceptable in IE! Only one thing more I would like to fix.. headlines appear in IE much bigger than in firefox.. any idea what i can do about this?
thanks!!

DeXXus · Post by **DeXXus** » Thu 16. Aug 2007, 20:05

First I would clear up the issues that are preventing your .PNGs from loading up correctly by moving

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<div class="invisibleonload">

OUT of the HTML <head> and down into the <body> where it belongs.
Then perhaps IE6 will recognize the .HTC behaviors properly.

I also notice that IE7 has problems with the header.PNG container not being big enough to show the entire graphic.

THEN you can see about trying to equalize the font sizes (such as those <H1> and <H2> headings that you are talking about) by maybe explicitly assign a size or percentage.

hulkie · Post by **hulkie** » Fri 17. Aug 2007, 07:22

Hello DeXXus,
thanks for advice.. will try that. This div in the header is from fulvios multilanguage fix, but you are right.. this is not the right place. I think this multilanguage thing is causing a lot of troubles (also lightbox doesnt work)... thinking on replacing it wt a different solution.
thanks a lot for your help

christian