IE Crashed - Firefox fine

[jonki]

I have this code which causes absolutely no problem en firefox but IE goes crazy; doesnt show anything at all and the info bar at the bottom flashes between the URL of the page and the words "Connecting to IP:xxxxxx". Then after a while I get a pop up saying IE could not connect to the $fullurl_here. Operation cancelled.

The thing is, last night it was working fine and we haven't changed anything.

I have removed lines and tried all I can think of but I have no idea what it could be.

	if ($vista=="f") {
							// set up loop counter
							$col_count = 0;

						// start table and first tr
						echo '<table><tr>';
					}		 

//Checks if any vehicles are found and if so displays the result in a table

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ($result))
		{

$nivel=$row["nivel"]; $user_id = $row["user_id"];
$querycount ="UPDATE db SET viewcount=viewcount+1 where user_id='$user_id'" ; mysql_query($querycount) or die (mysql_error() ); // I have tried without this line

?>
 </font>
      <? 

  if ($vista=="f") 
  		{ 
		// if you have output 3 cols then end tr and start a new one
		   if ($col_count == 3) {
			  echo '</tr><tr>';
			  //  and reset the col count
			  $col_count = 0;
		   }
		   // always output the td
		   echo '<td>'; include ("tablenuevof.php");  echo '</td>';
		  // and count the column
		  $col_count++;



		} // END VISTA FOTOS


  else { // Start other view

The tablenuevo.php is just a simple html table with some basic php.

If anyone wants to see what happens click here http://www.tenercoche.com/buscar/coches/buscar.php?lim=0&idiomas=ES&ult=1&vista=f

The normal view works fine. With the photos view, I display 60 results and therefore this loop runs 60 times; with 3 results and with 4 results it works ok. So it isnt due to the line change.

I can imagine 60 lines being a lot - but to crash IE?

Many thanks for anyones help or suggestions.

[bradgrafelman]

Worked fine in both IE and FireFox for me.

The first thing you should do is clean up your client-side code; you should always produce nothing but valid HTML.

[jonki]

forgot to post the bit of code that finished off the table.
}
} // END WHILE

				if ($vista=="f") {
							// then close off the last row and the table
							echo '</tr></table>'; 
					}

[jonki]

Thanks Bradgrafelman,

Could you explain a little what you mean. I clicked on the link but it didnt shed much light.

Thanks

[jonki]

Er - hang on. That page is analysing the webpage in question. Sorry - I'm a bit slow tonight. Thanks I will look into it.

[jonki]

Hi - as far as I can see that page is simply trying to get me to "selfclose" tags ... what ever that means. I have noticed dreamweaver putting a lot of "\ >" lately but I have no idea why. Is it this? Why do I have to do this all of a sudden?

Doing a search for \ > doesnt get me any where.

Thanks

[NogDog]

You have declared your page to be XHTML via the doctype declaration. As such, all tags must be closed in order for it to be a valid XHTML document. That means stand-alone tags such as "meta" and "img" must be self-closed via a "/" before the closing ">" character. (XHTML is an implementation of XML, and as such is stricter than HTML in things like that, as well as requiring that all tag and attribute names be lower-case and all attribute values must be quoted, whereas HTML is more lenient about such things.) You also have issues with "&" characters being used which need to be "&" instead. This can be easily rectified via [man]htmlspecialchars/man if these values are being output by your PHP.

[jonki]

Ok. I am begining to understand why there is a problem. Why would this happen all of a sudden? Could it be that my pages are in html and dreamweaver did something strange and changed the page to a xhtml?
How would I specify that it is pure html? (I tried doing this with dreamweaver but it gives me the same text. Maybe my dreamweaver is faulty???? (It is playing up in other instances)

[NogDog]

I don't use DW, so cannot address that. There is a specific DW forum here if you'd like to try posting a question there and see if any DW gurus have any suggestions.

You can change it to HTML by changing the first line with the <doctype> declaration. Use the "Strict" or "Loose" doctype from this list. (You should normally use "Strict" unless there is a reason that you need to use some deprecated feature that requires the "Loose" DTD.)

Also, many HTML editors include a "HTML Tidy" plug-in (and I would imagine something as expensive as DW should) that can automate the process of converting a document to XHTML, fixing tags and properties as needed.

Hope some of that helps.