Anyone up for a game of HTML

Factual Questions
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I have a web page, and I’m not too literate when it comes to HTML. Now when I visit my page everything works, but I get an error message at the bottom left hand corner of the IE window. I tried right-clicking on my page and chose properties, there it has a button that says analyze. I clicked it and it said there are no errors on page. I’ve had this error message ever since Yahoo and Geocities merged, and I have not been able to figure out whats wrong with the page.

Here is my webpage address. http://geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/4461

If you decide to type address in rather than copy and paste make sure the “S”,“H” and “G” are in CAPS.

I’ll appreciate any help.

Thanks

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Er… the most obvious error is that you have not included a closing </BODY> or </HTML> tag at the end of teh document.

But there are many more, minor errors just in tag structure that shouldn’t seriously cause a problem.

May I also suggest you get rid of that godawful background, it makes reading the text next to impossible.

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I’m no expert on this, but I think all that’s the problem is that you left off the closing HTML tag (</HTML> ).

Ray

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Thanks for your replies. One problem though. When I right clicked on my page and chose “view source” the text didn’t have those closing tags. So I added them and uploaded my new index page. I refreshed my webpage and still got the same error message. In my file manager the closing tags were there but they don’t show up in the “view source”. I’m still getting the error message.

Guanolad said:
“May I also suggest you get rid of that godawful background, it makes reading the text next to impossible.”

I agree with you man, Got that one from my 8y.o. sister. I couldn’t say no when she asked me to use it, and I havent had much time to make a decent one.

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Well, if the closing tags are there but not showing up in the view source, then…

Hang on a sec, I’ll look at it in Netscape… Yeah, it works okay.

Like I said, you have a few other formatting errors - you’ve placed instructional code that doesn’t actually apply to the tag it’s in.

Don’t worry, it works, it’s fine.

Here’s how to fix the background readability problem - put BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" in the table with the links in.

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Guanolad I guess your right–it works fine–did you notice the link to the SD-

I had the background plain white and didn’t like it either. I am going to change the BG soon when i get the time

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People, there has been no need to include a </html> for many years now…

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Hey there…

The errors you are experiencing are caused by the little Geocities window that is supposed to pop up (go look at another Geocities site to see what I mean). By the looks of things, someone has misnamed a stylesheet element in this pop up and that’s where the error is. Contact Geocities and tell them, there’s nothing much wrong with your own page.

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Yes, now it loads completely in Netscape. Before, it looked OK in Netscape but Netscape never would get to “Document Done”

Ray

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Actually, Netscape now doesn’t ever complete loading that page, and, in my lousy system, gets into some state where I can’t use it right anymore, and have to actually reboot Windows to get it working again, but IE continues working and allowing me to post OK.

Ray

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MadHun, if that’s so about the </HTML> tag, and I don’t know if it is, then it still may have explained why the ‘page has errors’ message came up.

It’s always good to include all tags as needed, and not rely too much on browser proprietary usage. You never know what system someone is viewing on.

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Madhun, I had heard that as well, but guanolad offered the suggestion so I tried. About the little Geocities window, I’ll have to check that out.

Thanks

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GuanoLad,

hey there fella, I’m kinda of the opinion “There’s no reason on earth not to have at least IE4”.

BTW, to the OP, I don’t know whether the errors I was seeing were the ones you were trying to fix in the first place.

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When I view it in Opera the YGeocities box that generally shows up on those pages shows up about 10 times partially covering itself near the bottom of your page.

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It’s a JavaScript error in line 47 (count all line - even empty ones from the top).

There is also a conflict in line 129 - also a JavaScript error - it seems you are calling for an object (all.yI1.style) that really isn’t an object.

That’s a style command meant to alter part of the text on the page. The way you wrote (or geocities wrote the script) is in bad form. The lines are truncated. All lines shoud en with a semi-colon - go in and reload the page sans and scripting and see if it’s Geocities or your code first. Then repair if it’s yours.

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this is line 47:
<a href=“mailto: Widespreadpannik@msn.com”>

this is line 129:<!-- Yahoo! Menu service --></table></noscript></script><script language=“JavaScript” src=“http://a372.g.a.yimg.com/f/372/27/1d/www.geocities.com/js_source/ygIELib5.js”></script><script language=“JavaScript”>var yvContents=‘Domain Names, Website Builder, Web hosting & More | Yahoo! Small Business’;yfEA(0);</script><!-- END Yahoo! Menu Service →
Man I don’t understand?

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i may be wrong, but i’m pretty sure that the problem with line 47 is the space between mailto: and the email.

“If anybody wants a sheep, that is proof that he exists.”

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I don’t know squat about this, but when I open the page I get an IE Script Error box that says an error occurs in Line 46 and describes it as ‘document.all.yl0.style’ is not an object. Then i get another that says the error is in Line 128 and describes it as ‘document.all.yl1.style’ is not an object (I got that error window 4 times).

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  1. Line: 47
    Char: 1
    Error: ‘document.all.yl0.style’ is not an object
    Code: 0
    URL: http://geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/4461

  2. Same as 1

  3. Same as 1 and 2

  4. Line: 128
    Char: 1
    Error: ‘document.all.yl1.style’ is not an object
    Code: 0
    URL: http://geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/4461

I don’t know what any of that means, though.

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Replace everything below:
<!-- End of Infoplease Search →

with:
<IMG SRC=“http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76000017&t=951384772” WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>
<!-- Yahoo! Menu service --></table></noscript></script><script language=“JavaScript” src=“http://a372.g.a.yimg.com/f/372/27/1d/www.geocities.com/js_source/ygIELib5.js”></script><script language=“JavaScript”>var yvContents=‘Domain Names, Website Builder, Web hosting & More | Yahoo! Small Business’;yfEA(0);</script><!-- END Yahoo! Menu Service →
</body></html>

I believe the problem is that you put in 5 copies of the same javascript snippet, which confused it. I tried the modified page in my IE and it worked fine; no errors, brought up the window OK. Try it.