Ellen Heitman wrote: > Here is what I have in the head of my document: > <!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";> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > <title>- Letters Home: April 1944 -</title> > </head> > > Any errors jump out at anyone as to why I'd still be getting strange > characters on my pages? This only seems to occur in IE 7, not FF or Safari. > The only info I have found online says to add the meta tag, which was there > in the first place. > > Again, thanks for any advice! > > ellen
Empty elements in XHTML should have a trailing slash before they are closed. You have, <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> where you should have. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> Using the online validator would catch this error. <http://validator.w3.org/> # Line 5, Column 68: end tag for "meta" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified … content="text/html; charset=utf-… You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">". # Line 5: start tag was here ><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> -- Alan http://css-class.com/ Armies Cannot Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come. - Victor Hugo ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
