Comments too long?

  • Hi, just noticed that one of the posts on the site I manage is not displaying correctly when you go to view the post and comments. In fact it is very odd, as it is the only post displaying this behaviour.

    This is the post here.

    I wondered if it was due to the length of some of the comments left as it seems to be the only post with the longest comments (individuals).

    Anyone have any ideas? Everything else if behaving and this is the only page to also fail to load something (about:blank) when viewing in Safari.

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  • most of the site looks pretty screwy in ie7

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    I don’t see anything wrong with it in Firefox 2.

    However, it doesn’t validate and so there’s no telling what it will do in other browsers.

    https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theforgottenways.org%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2F2007%2F03%2F16%2Fnot-my-precioussss%2F

    Always validate your webpages! It’s *shocking* at how many display problems go away when you take the (relatively) small amount of time required to make your site produce 100% valid markup. Valid markup should *not* be considered optional for any serious webmaster.

    Don’t settle for just XHTML 1.0 Transitional either. Once you’ve made your site validate to that, it’s surprisingly easy to move on up to XHTML 1.0 Strict or even XHTML 1.1. Personally, I think 1.1 actually renders in browsers faster, although I have not done any actual testing on it.

    Thread Starter nealtaylor

    (@nealtaylor)

    Thanks jetshack – I did check in IE6 and ok but IE7 whew looks bad.

    Otto42 – I know it doesn’t validate but my question is why is this post screwy and non of the others? Is it because the comments are overly long?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    neal: a) I don’t see anything screwy about it in my browser, and b) trying to find what’s screwy about it when there are 152 validation errors is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

    Validate your code. Then it won’t be screwy. Or if it is, then it will at least be possible to find out why. With valid code, you can very quickly find the source of the problem. With invalid code, it would take hours.

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