site shows questionmarks in firefox and opera but works perfectly in ie & safari

nervine · 01-26-2009, 02:25 PM

i've been told i have to reupload it with ascii transfer but that didn't do anything, tried a million times, cocking around with all the transfer settings in smartFTP.

i included a screenshot of how it looks like in firefox.

horrorshow75 · 01-26-2009, 02:30 PM

You're going to have to give more info than that. A link would be helpful, can't troubleshoot a screenshot. Also how was this created, did you code by hand or use a WYSIWYG? Is it .html, .php, .asp, etc?

nervine · 01-26-2009, 02:38 PM

http://home.deds.nl/~nervine/website2/home.html

coded by hand in notepad. it's html with a bit of css.

horrorshow75 · 01-26-2009, 02:49 PM

Unfortunately i am at work so I can't test the site in FF or opera (hopefully someone else here can) But I looked at your code and there is no document declaration. The top of your html document should look similar to the code below.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">

You have 48 validation errors. I would start by fixing at least most of these. My guess though is the fact that you didn't declare the doc type. Standard compliant browsers such as FF and Opera are probably having trouble figuring out what to do with it.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

nervine · 01-26-2009, 03:23 PM

Thanks a bunch man. I declared the doc type with the code you put and it shows the site but the layout is a bit ****ed now.. I used very basic old html though, not xhtml.

horrorshow75 · 01-26-2009, 03:36 PM

Well I just used that as an example. You will need to decide what type you want to use.

This site explains the different types.
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html

You will probably want HTML 4.01 Transitional

01-26-2009, 02:25 PM	#1
nervine New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3	site shows questionmarks in firefox and opera but works perfectly in ie & safari i've been told i have to reupload it with ascii transfer but that didn't do anything, tried a million times, cocking around with all the transfer settings in smartFTP. i included a screenshot of how it looks like in firefox. Attached Images

01-26-2009, 02:30 PM	#2
horrorshow75 Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: HBG, PA Posts: 160	You're going to have to give more info than that. A link would be helpful, can't troubleshoot a screenshot. Also how was this created, did you code by hand or use a WYSIWYG? Is it .html, .php, .asp, etc? __________________ <!-- Tables are for data, not layout! -->

01-26-2009, 02:49 PM	#4
horrorshow75 Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: HBG, PA Posts: 160	Unfortunately i am at work so I can't test the site in FF or opera (hopefully someone else here can) But I looked at your code and there is no document declaration. The top of your html document should look similar to the code below. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en"> You have 48 validation errors. I would start by fixing at least most of these. My guess though is the fact that you didn't declare the doc type. Standard compliant browsers such as FF and Opera are probably having trouble figuring out what to do with it. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0 __________________ <!-- Tables are for data, not layout! --> Last edited by horrorshow75; 01-26-2009 at 02:51 PM. Reason: spelling

01-26-2009, 03:36 PM	#6
horrorshow75 Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: HBG, PA Posts: 160	Well I just used that as an example. You will need to decide what type you want to use. This site explains the different types. http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html You will probably want HTML 4.01 Transitional __________________ <!-- Tables are for data, not layout! -->

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01-26-2009, 02:38 PM	#3
nervine New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3	http://home.deds.nl/~nervine/website2/home.html coded by hand in notepad. it's html with a bit of css.

01-26-2009, 03:23 PM	#5
nervine New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3	Thanks a bunch man. I declared the doc type with the code you put and it shows the site but the layout is a bit ****ed now.. I used very basic old html though, not xhtml.