I went through my code and fixed any small errors I could find, but this problem is still there.
It’s only some readers, but they see the post font as huge and jumbled. The sidebar looks fine.
It looks fine on all 3 of my browsers so I can’t check it. I am using the Landzilla theme. As far as I know, I haven’t changed any of the style settings.
Can anyone help?
Have you validated your theme recently? You may want to start with that and start cleaning up the “markup issues” and mismatched tags and such.
There’s a lot of work to be done, but at a glance, a lot of it is pretty straightforward to adjust.
But when your site is that far off from the doctype, some browsers may just “give up.”
I tried validating, which I’ve never done, and it says I have errors that are not there…so I gave up!
I guess I have to learn a few more things, eh?
it says I have errors that are not there.
I’ve neveer seen anything like that, i.e. non-existing errors shown 🙂
It will say I have left off a something, like > , and it is there. I didn’t know what to do with that.
It never says that. You have to learn how to read those error messages. The > shows WHERE the error is.
What is not there is not shown 🙂
If you check the Show Source box and Revalidate – every error line will become a clickable link taking you to the exact location of the error.
Thank you. That will help a lot. Guess I have my work cut out for me.
>>and it says I have errors that are not there<<
No, they’re there. The thing with validation is, you should just start at the top of the list there and work your way down. A lot of times, the reason some of the errors show up is because there’s one that eneds to be fixed in the beginning – until it’s fixed, it’ll throw the whole thing off. Fix the one, and you’ll find that a bunch of the errors will just disappear like magic, because everything has fallen back into place.
Looking at your validation errors, you need to be sure you *always* have an alt tag in your images. Tags that are self-contained should also be self-closing (for example: <br> should be <img> should be <img />…and so on). If you have lists, you need to be sure they are opened correctly – you should start your lists with either <ol> or <ul> – not just <li>. STuff like that. You also have som einline styles that read VERY incorrectly. When you put a style inline, it should look like so: <span style="font-size:2em;color:#000;"> NOT <span style="{font-size:2em;color:#000;}"> – those brackets are not needed.
Just start at the top and work your way down.
As for the original question – I see what they’re talking about in IE. Whoa. That’s messed up!
Edit: heh – moshu answered while I was typing LOL…oh well!
It sounds like some of the errors are mine because all I know is basic HTML, but that bracket thing might be from the theme. Jeez. That’s a lot to figure out, but I will give it a go.
Wish I could see it messed up but my IE doesn’t show the mess. 🙂
Thanks for the help. I’m sure I’ll be back later.
You can download firefox here http://www.mozilla.com/
Yosemite wrote a little article that might help you get rolling with the validation thing.
Thanks tutsi, I use Firefox. 🙂
Thanks for the article. I just downloaded Landzilla from the Swamp, too.
It passed validation! Could someone take a peek who saw it messed up in IE before?
Thanks so much for your help!
ohhh yeah. *MUCH* better. 🙂
