phantom html?

[adieu]

My personal site,

http://www.adieu.nu,

has a simple homepage, one table with 10 cells.

To the right of the bottom cell, is what appears to be a vertical sliver of the cell extending beyond the table. Of course this is impossible. I've searched through the code, but can't find what might be causing it. It doesn't appear on any of my other pages.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated. kc

http://adieu.nu

 

[wverner]

hey adieu
I looked at your site. I have pasted your HTML code to show you where your problem lies.

<b>The
boy slapped some cold water on his life story to try to wake it up.
<a href=&quot;lifestory.htm&quot;>>>></a></b></font></font></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td></td> ****** THIS LINE IS THE PROBLEM****
</tr>
</table>
</body>

If you remove that line then that &quot;phantom html&quot; will not appear. you have cells running down the right hand side of your main table. You dont see the other cells showing as they have a background colour of black.(same colour as your background colour) You see this cell as it has the background colour of #996666.

The other cells are:
</font>| <font color=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;><a href=&quot;mailto:kc@adieu.nu&quot;>e-me</a></font></font></font></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width=&quot;1&quot;></td> ***HERE**

(2)
<td width=&quot;68&quot; rowspan=&quot;3&quot; valign=&quot;middle&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#666666&quot;><font size=&quot;1&quot; face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot;><b>Beautiful
mystery. <a href=&quot;0102beauty.htm&quot;><<<</a></b></font></td>
<td></td> **HERE**

(3)
wine. Good girls. <a href=&quot;0102wine.htm&quot;>>>></a></font></b></div>
</td>
<td height=&quot;9&quot;></td> ****HERE***
</tr>
<tr bgcolor=&quot;#000000&quot;>
<td height=&quot;82&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;> </td>
<td></td> ***HERE****

Adieu, If you delete these lines these will disappear for you. Hope this helps.

 

[adieu]

Brilliant. Thanks. Fixed it right up. Excuse my ignorance. Okay, so I don't have ghosts in my html, just hitchhikers.

I could only delete your first suggestion, which was the problem. The others did things to the page, like line up horizontally the dividing lines of the cells. I will play with it some more, though.

I don't know if DW4 inserts such code or I somehow created it while tinkering in layout view to get things where I wanted. I didn't realize that elements, like cells, could be live in the code, but not show up in layout view. I notice that DW4 sometimes creates what appears to be redundant code, like </font></font>, but I usually just leave it. With my limited knowledge of html, I live by the creed &quot;If it works, don't touch it.&quot; Which is probably a good reason to spend more time learning to handcode.

I'm very grateful for your time and trouble. kc

http://adieu.nu