Comments on: Thanks for the Firefox notes… http://www.neilshearing.com/2006/04/21/thanks-for-the-firefox-notes/ Neil Shearing's latest up-to-the-minute tips and secrets! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:38:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: xof http://www.neilshearing.com/2006/04/21/thanks-for-the-firefox-notes/#comment-22 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:54:25 +0000 http://www.neilshearing.com/2006/04/21/thanks-for-the-firefox-notes/#comment-22 Hi Neil, apparently, you already learned about various doctypes. (A very good source is http:alistapart/articles/ (do a search for "doctype")) If you use XHTML 1.0 Transitional, which is the bottom standard for modern state-of-the-art browsers, you should pay attention that certain former (deprecated) code isn't valid any more. After having replaced your doctype with I did a syntax check and found the following error message: line:117: Value of attribute “cols” for element “” must be a number. Taht line reads: the "cols=100%" might be the reason why the page doesn't display correctly in your FF. BTW, in my 1.5.0.2 version of FF the display is ok. --rudolf The code in that line reads: Hi Neil,

apparently, you already learned about various doctypes.
(A very good source is
http:alistapart/articles/
(do a search for “doctype”))

If you use XHTML 1.0 Transitional, which is the bottom standard for
modern state-of-the-art browsers, you should pay attention that certain
former (deprecated) code isn’t valid any more.

After having replaced your doctype with

I did a syntax check and found the following error message:
line:117: Value of attribute “cols” for element “” must be a number.

Taht line reads:

the “cols=100%” might be the reason why the page doesn’t display correctly in your FF.

BTW, in my 1.5.0.2 version of FF the display is ok.

–rudolf

The code in that line reads:

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