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No, I think I’ve gotten it fixed…kind of. Let me ask you, how do you so quickly see what it looks like in so many different browsers? Do you have them all installed on your computer?

And, now I’m having difficulty understanding layout design…this is making me crazy. I’ve talked to a couple of people that say my wrapper creates a scroll bar b/c it’s too wide and yet I haven’t been able to find a computer yet that makes that happen. (I guess the resolution is too small?)

Just as I thought I was starting to understand the resolution/screen size aspect of the layout I found this…

If you look at my site (wrapper 1000px) and then look at one of my fav. blogs thisyounghouse.com (wrapper 940px)…their site (at least on my screen with the same browser) appears larger. Why is that? It should be and appear smaller right?

On my screen my wrapper leaves about a 3″ margin on either side of it…this young house only has about a 1″ margin on either side.

Well Esmi you seem to be my bff in this forum. I really appreciate your comprehensive replies to my various questions.

Okay, I’ll try this…very helpful.

But can you help me understand what’s going on with the visual thing…check out a site that I really love

thisyounghouse.com and then mine
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I’ve changed the width of my wrapper back to 1000px but look at This Young House…theirs looks bigger than mine in the same browser on the same screen but theirs is apparently only 940px wide. Why is that?

Iri, I don’t understand…I only see one p tag in the example. When I look at the full code I don’t see an open p tag either. Thanks for that link I did read it and it shed some light on the background but I’m afraid doesn’t help me much with my errors…although I’m down to 11.

Makes me want to bang my head against a brick wall.

Thank you so much for responding. And yeah, I’ve been working on them all day…since someone pointed me there earlier. I’m down to 32 errors now but I’m really having difficulty clearing these up. How do I figure out how to fix these (they are those I left until the end)? I’ve found several that don’t seem to really exist, for instance it will say “line 171 column 18” but then when you look at is there is no column 18 on that line. Am I thinking of this wrong?

And could anyone tell me what this error means:

# Error Line 174, Column 31: document type does not allow element “p” here; missing one of “object”, “applet”, “map”, “iframe”, “button”, “ins”, “del” start-tag

<p style=”text-align: center;”>GORGEOUS!!!</p>

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The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you’ve placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you’ve forgotten to close a previous element.

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as “<p>” or “<table>”) inside an inline element (such as ““, “<span>”, or “<font>”).

oh sorry…

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