thedarkman said:
http://www.ismichaelstoneguilty.org/m_s_stone_letter_october_20_2006.html
the above page should exhibit the four options on consecutive lines but
for some reason on the website two of the lines are merged as you can
see. There doesn't appear to be any error in the coding. Can anyone
sort this out?
Well, you can *say* there doesn't appear to be any error, but it doesn't
make it true. It doesn't even validate
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...lty.org/m_s_stone_letter_october_20_2006.html
(or try
http://tinyurl.com/yxdgsq), and that doesn't necessarily detect
any logic errors. It's just the *syntax*. But the code, my friend, is awful.
As it happens you've got something like this:
<h3><br>
<p><a href="blah1.html">To First Letter
<br><a href="blah2.html">To Second Letter</br>
<br><a href="blah3.html">Return To Correspondence Index</br>
<br><a href="blah4.html">Return To Site Index
</h3>
This is a very long <h3> element (although it's not really a heading,
it's a list of four links). The first element in the <h3> is a
line-break. Then you've got a paragraph (for some non-reason) which
looks like it's going to contain a link. The <a> element is started
(blah1), but never finished. After the text "To First Letter" there
comes a <br>, which really is a line-break.
Then a second link (blah2) starts (again without closing tag) with the
text "To Second Letter". Next comes a thing spelled </br>, which isn't
really anything, but appears to be treated by some browsers as a
line-break. Then there follows a <br>, which really is a line-break. So
that's two line-breaks following the second link.
Similar chaos ensues after the third (likewise unclosed) <a> link,
before finishing the train wreck with (1) the lack of a terminating </a>
for the fourth link; (2) the lack of a </p> (not formally required).
Additionally, the page starts with two never-terminated <font> elements
and a spurious closing </center> tag.
You're lucky a browser shows you *anything*.
HTH
