Help with REALLY DUMB SIMPLE html code

Resolved pweingart
(@pweingart)

16 years, 5 months ago
Hi, folks,

I need somebody with a little experience writing HTML code to take a look at this incredibly simple piece of code I’m writing to tell me what’s wrong.

This is exactly the same problem that I encountered the last time I started learning HTML. It was so frustrating that I quit, and didn’t pick it up again for 5 years.

The problem is that when I insert an href to create a link, the first link in the page shows up only as text, like a paragraph, and none of the heading tags above it on the page show up at all. If there’s a second link, it shows up as a link.

Here’s my code WITHOUT the link. It works.
```
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Test Web Page 5</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso8859-1 />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>The fifth page.</h1>
    <h3>List of relative links.</h3>
</body>
</html>
```
So far, so good. Go ahead, display it. It works.

Now, I add an unordered list of links below my headers. Same code plus the new stuff:
```
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Test Web Page 5</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso8859-1 />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>The fifth page.</h1>
    <h3>List of relative links.</h3>
 <ul>
  <li><a href="page01.php">First Page</a></li>
  <li><a href="page02.php">Second Page</a></li>
  <li><a href="page03.php">Third Page</a></li>
  </ul>
  </body>
</html>
```
My headings disappear, and “First Page” shows up as paragraph text.
“Second Page” and “Third Page” show up as links.

I even clipped example code from the tutorial I’m following, and displayed that. Same result. As a troubleshooter, I have to conclude that my browser display engine is broken somehow.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Phil W.

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academiphiliac
(@academiphiliac)

16 years, 5 months ago

You’re just missing a quotation mark.

This:

<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso8859-1 />

Should be:

<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso8859-1″ />

myblogz
(@myblogz)

16 years, 5 months ago

I have an even more basic problem that maybe you can help me with. I’m trying to edit the file that contains my Title, Meta tags, and Keywords. The problem is I have no idea what the file is and where it is. I thought it would be the index.php file in my ftp site directory, but it’s not. When I view the source on my page the first section is this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” dir=”ltr”>

<head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />

<title>Black Belt Politics </title>

<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.3.1″ /> <!– leave this for stats –>

Where is this and can I edit it locally so I can ftp it back with the added title info, meta, etc.?

Thanks.

moshu
(@moshu)

16 years, 5 months ago

Everything is always in your theme’s template files.
The head section… you will be surprized: it is located in header.php 🙂

myblogz
(@myblogz)

16 years, 5 months ago

I wish it was that easy! That was the 1st place I looked. It’s just a bunch of code that seems to pull it’s info from somewhere else??? I know why pweingart gave up (above post). If you go to unscriptednews.com/your2cents, view, source, there it is!

<title>Black Belt Politics </title>

etc, etc…..

I can build you a computer in an hour but I’m freakin’ lost! Man this is frustrating.

whooami
(@whooami)

16 years, 5 months ago

it is that easy, youre just not seeing that the “code” you speak of is what is generating what you see when view source.
solenyi
(@solenyi)

16 years, 5 months ago
And u mixed < li > and < ul >.

It should be (without the spaces, somehow these backticks don’t work for me

< ul >
< li >< a href=”page01.php”>First Page< /a >< /li >
< li >< a href=”page02.php”>Second Page< /a >< /li >
< li >< a href=”page03.php”>Third Page< /a >< /li >
< /ul >
```
' 

But the quotation mark was ur problem.

So this would be ur code:
```
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”>
<head>
<title>Test Web Page 5</title>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html;charset=iso8859-1″ />
</head>
<body>
<h1>The fifth page.</h1>
<h3>List of relative links.</h3>
</body>
</html>
`
PLZ close the post as resolved.
Thread Starter pweingart
(@pweingart)

16 years, 5 months ago

I am appropriately embarrassed, but yes, sometimes it does take a fresh pair of eyes.

Thank you. I appreciate the help.