Not working

drndrw

Hi, I am currently making a site for a project. I have the first page almost done, but there is a problem. The table won't display 🙁. Why is this? Thanks. I displayed the markup below:

<html>
<head>
<title>Seizure Disorder- Information on Epilepsy</title>
<style>
body
{ 
background-image: 
url('http://www.seizure-disorder.info/images/brimage1.gif');
background-repeat: repeat-x
}
table
{
backround-color: #333333;
filter:alpha(opacity=50)
}
p
{
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 75%
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div align="center">
<table cellpadding="40" cellspacing="20" border="0">
<td>
<?php
echo "<p>Hello and welcome to Seizure Disorder.info! We are currently under construction, so please check back soon!";
?>
</td>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

leatherback

1) you are in the wrong forum. Next time please post in the newbies section
2) It looks like an HTML issue
3) Look at the sourcecode of the created page. You'll probably find that the page & table show, but your echo doesn't

Is your page called 'something'.html or .php?
Do you have a webserver / php running on the machine where you are testing this?

drndrw

Oops, sorry 🙁. But I can see the page, and the echo, not the table. And it is saved as a .php.

Weedpacket

W3C's validator finds three problems in the HTML:

Error Line 1 column 0: no document type declaration; implying "<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM>".

<html>

The checked page did not contain a document type ("DOCTYPE") declaration. The Validator has tried to validate with a fallback DTD, but this is quite likely to be incorrect and will generate a large number of incorrect error messages. It is highly recommended that you insert the proper DOCTYPE declaration in your document -- instructions for doing this are given above -- and it is necessary to have this declaration before the page can be declared to be valid.

Error Line 4 column 6: required attribute "TYPE" not specified.

The attribute given above is required for an element that you've used, but you have omitted it. For instance, in most HTML and XHTML document types the "type" attribute is required on the "script" element and the "alt" attribute is required for the "img" element.

Typical values for type are type="text/css" for <style> and type="text/javascript" for <script>.

Error Line 27 column 3: start tag for "TR" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this.

Its CSS validator reckons there is no such thing as "backround-color". (Or opacity=50, for that matter - but that whole filter thing is IE-only.)

drndrw

I see. Is there anything I can do to make this style copatible with other browsers?

NogDog

Keep your HTML semantically meaningful, and let the CSS to the visual styling. (I.e.: only use tables for tabula data, not for visual presentation.)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
<title>Seizure Disorder- Information on Epilepsy</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{ 
background-image: 
url('http://www.seizure-disorder.info/images/brimage1.gif');
background-repeat: repeat-x
}
p.hello
{
   margin: 0 auto;
   background-color: #333333;
   filter:alpha(opacity=50);
   font-family: Arial;
   font-size: 75%;
   padding: 40px;
   width: 55em;
   text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<?php
echo "<p class='hello'>Hello and welcome to Seizure Disorder.info! We are currently under construction, so please check back soon!</p>";
?>
</body>
</html>