I created a site in dreamweaver MX 2004. After many weeks of work, it suddenly won't preview in Internet Explorer. Firefox is fine. I uploaded it and have a REAL website now. However, even on-line it won't open in Internet Explorer. I have no idea what I did to make this happen. Any ideas? is the address if that helps. I'm a beginner, so a simple explanation is appreciated. Thanks!
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Well you have quite the mess there, you have repeated things, you have a call to your css file twice, you have two blocks of styles when there should be only one etc...
But basically your problem stems form 2 comment tags you never close.
<!--
Explorer, Safari and probabably other browsers find that, and just take eveyrthing after the tag as a comment so they don't display it.
Firefox, figures that when you open a new element the old comment ends so it does go on and display the website.
Remove the tags in red:
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But basically your problem stems form 2 comment tags you never close.
<!--
Explorer, Safari and probabably other browsers find that, and just take eveyrthing after the tag as a comment so they don't display it.
Firefox, figures that when you open a new element the old comment ends so it does go on and display the website.
Remove the tags in red:
Code:
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</style>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style3 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
.style7 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #880000;
font-size: 12px;
}
-->
</style>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
[red]<!--
<!--[/red]
</script>
<link href="css_winksite.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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You also have <meta> tags in your <body> element - they should only be in the <head>. It's also worth checking your site validation - as that will pick up a lot of the errors for you.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am teaching myself and creating the site in Design View, so I was at a total loss as to what went wrong. I will do the site validation. That will help a lot. I am so grateful there are people out there who are willing to take the time to help. Thank you so much.
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