Junior Coders
Firefox Problem
Hello
Firefox is giving me some grief in that a website that shows fine in IE shows only as HTML in FF.
I've changed hosts still the same outcome. I've checked my code. Still the same. I've even got rid of all my code and stuck in a fresh new page consisting of just the most basic few lines of HTML but still the same.
What causes this?
THanks
H
Elite Coders
Everything eventually gets translated / into html to be rendered on the screen, so can you please be more specific about what isn't displaying that should be displaying.
I am going to make an assumption and say that you are having difficulties with javascript?? possibly? and my answer to that is you have errors on your code that are actually being errored in Fx where IE doesn't error what it should.
Post the url to the problematic code so we can better help you troubleshoot your problems
Junior Coders
Hello Boogeyman - thanks for the response
No it's not javascript related in anyway.
I've got a page that reads nothing more than this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of page</title>
</head>
<body>
This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b>
</body>
</html>
There is nothing else. It's not got any JS, PHP or CSS. And that's exactly how it shows in FF whereas in IE it's displays correctly.
Global Moderator
I think that you mean it shows as HTML in IE and as the raw source code in FF. And I am assuming the page displays OK in FF when run locally, right?
If so, try a valid page, like this (call it test.htm or something with the .htm or .html extension):
If that still doesn't work in FF, then the server needs to be reconfigured.Code:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Title of page</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <div> This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b> </div> </body> </html>
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Elite Coders
so it is rendering the code, and not parsing / processing the html code?
the only reason any page should be parsing computer code is if you escape the less than and/or greater than signs, or if you use the depreciated<pre>tag.
if that is all you have in your file, then you have something corrupt with your version of Fx.
Junior Coders
Rawcode in FF and HTML in IE - yep, that's what I meant sorry for the confusion.
Junior Coders
I'm chasing this up with my new host who've advised that the nameservers hadn't been transferred from my old host (who didn't want to help with this problem whatsoever) to my new host. Is this likely to be the cause of the problem?
It wouldn't explain why it didn't work with the original hosts but I don't care if I get the right result...
Global Moderator
It could, the basic problem is that the server is serving the code as plain text. If it doesn't, the meta content tag (from my example) should take care of that, but if not, the host should be configured to send the page properly.
You are using a .htm or .html extension on the page, right?
- John________________________
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Elite Coders
Hi there boogyman,
I think that you may be confusing theor if you use the deprecated<pre>tag.pre elementwith thexmp element.
Source:-The following elements are obsolete: LISTING, PLAINTEXT, and XMP. For all of them, authors should use the PRE element instead.
coothead
Elite Coders
depreciated and obsolete are two different things. Also note we are in HTML 4.1, and your link points to 4.0. Strict coding makes pre tag worthless, and the depreciated "transitional" DOCTYPE will still use it. YAY Quirks mode!
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