No issues w/Firefox; Tons of issues w/IE 6&7

HAHA! Found it!!! It was in the index.php file and that’s 7 more errors down!!! Three more measly headers to go then I can focus on how to format for Internet Explorer!!!

Your last three issues are all in the sidebar.

You have code like this:

<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" color="#c0c0c0" size="-6">
<h2>Categories: </h2>
</font>

That’s invalid code. You cannot put an H2 inside of a FONT. H2 is a block level element, but FONT is an inline element and can only contain inline level tags.

Also, FONT is bad anyway. Those font tags should just be removed and put the relevant bits into CSS code. Like this:

#rsidebar h2 {
font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica;
font-color:#c0c0c0;
font-size:-6;
}

Thanks Otto, you’ve been great help. I’ll give that a try and let you know how it goes.

And that opened up to more </div> errors somehow…

Somehow, somewhere, you added too many extra /div’s.

Seems like you need to understand DIVs better. A DIV is like a container element. By itself it does nothing, but it describes what it contains. So if you have a DIV with an ID of “lsidebar” for example, then everything inside the div should be the left sidebar code.

That’s really all you have to do. Make sure that for every DIV, it contains what it claims to contain. If you’ve got extra closing /div’s, then I’m thinking you’re looking at it wrong. You should not be trying to fix the errors as much as you should be trying to make the site semantically correct.

Yikes… So I fixed the last two </div> errors… BUT I’ve got problems.. my sidebar is now on the bottom of my firefox browser for the most part and IE has my page listed as the following:

header
body
sidebar
footer

Good news though! We’re a valid XTMHL 1.0 Transitional page now lmao!!

Oh lord… now can someone help me with the remaining kinks and formatting bugs?

Yeah I’m going to look into the sidebar code now Otto and see what’s going on with the divs.

fixed the issues… everything’s up and running perfectly valid on firefox now.

I’m going to assume that where and how i place my </div> tags will greatly affect the placement of the body, footer, and sidebar in internet explorer right?

Much thanks to Rudolf and Otto for the assistance… I gave you guys shouts in my blog ??

Now all I have to do tonight is figure out what exactly in my code is causing my page to appear so out of whack in internet explorer.

Again thanks for your patience in helping my beginner butt get some things straight.