A (hopefully) simple html question

cash22 · 09-08-2010 10:49am #1

Hi there,

I'm building a very basicwebsite in html...I'm a total beginner at it. The site works perfectly in Google Chrome but for some reason will not load in Internet Explorer or in Firefox. Is there something obvious that I'm missing that would explain this.

Eoin · 09-08-2010 11:00am

How do you mean it doesn't load? Nothing appears at all, or it does load but all over the place?

cash22 · 09-08-2010 11:08am

Sorry, yeah basically it's just a plain black background with three frames, one for title, one for page content and one for links to other pages. The black background loads but none of the other information comes up.

Eoin · 09-08-2010 11:09am

It could be a tag that isn't closed, or in the wrong place - but really the first thing you should do is see if there's any way to avoid using frames in the first place. They're considered bad practice for several years.

Skrynesaver · 09-08-2010 11:10am

It's line 32 where you forget to close your comment

Could you post code, ideally a stripped down version that exhibits the faulty behaviour

cash22 · 09-08-2010 11:15am

Will have a closer look. I just thought it might be some obvious difference between the browsers that I didn't know about.
I realise that I'm probably not using the best methods...yet!

cash22 · 09-08-2010 11:22am

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Drúcht - Home</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="Black"Text="#FFFFFF"LINK="#FFFFFF" VLINK="C0C0C0"/>

<STYLE>

</STYLE>

<frameset rows="25%,50%,25%" frameborder="no">

<CENTER>
<frame src="top.htm" name="top">
<img src="spacer.gif" alt=" " width="1" height="200" style="margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px;" />
<frame src="Body - Home.htm"name=homebody">
<frame src="bottom.htm" name="bottom">
</Center>

Owen · 09-08-2010 11:33am

cash22 wrote: »

<frame src="Body - Home.htm"name=homebody">

I didn't read through your code properly, but try changing the filename to bodyhome.htm instead of body - home.htm, the spaces may be screwing things up for you.

Eoin · 09-08-2010 11:33am

You're not closing the frameset tag, and perhaps the spaces in the filename are causing problems. Change a space to %20

But as I said, try not to use frames at all.

Edit - in fact, your HTML looks to be all over the place - this is the correct syntax:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html

Evil Phil · 09-08-2010 11:55am

This is really a design issue, I'll move it over there.

Liam Byrne · 09-08-2010 12:57pm

What is your reason for using frames (which are a really, really bad idea) ?

A (hopefully) simple html question

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