CSS Forum

**davidhowland14** · 10:49 PM

I'm coding a layout in dreamweaver right now, and I just moved the div top code from inside the <body> tags to inside the <head> tags. Now, in the "Design" pane of dreamweaver, the header bar fails to show up. When I view the site in firefox, is shows up fine. Does anyone have any idea why this might be occuring? Code is below: (None of the css was changed, and the view in Firefox still responds to changes in the css code)

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<title>Test Layout Sheet</title>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="test.css" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
	<div id="top">
	<h1>Test CSS</h1>
	</div>
</head>
<body>	
	<div id="right">
	
	</div>
</body>
</html>

is there any harm in having the top div in the <head> section of the site?

**sandyk3** · 03-27-2008, 11:13 PM

Hi David,

From http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_head.asp :

HTML <head> tag

Definition and Usage

The head element can contain information about the document. The browser does not display the "head information" to the user. The following tags can be in the head section: <base>, <link>, <meta>, <script>, <style>, and <title>.

**davidhowland14** · 03-27-2008, 11:24 PM

*face-palm* I was getting confused between the header tags in the two documents. Crown me a noob, i guess. Thread closed.

**sandyk3** · 03-28-2008, 12:39 AM

Sorry... can't crown you the noob... you'll have to struggle to take it away from me. We are all learning and it's been one heck of a long week.

**LadynRed** · 03-28-2008, 11:21 AM

Hey.. that's how we all learn

Just think of all the dumb mistakes you've ever made--- and what you learned because of them ??

**wayfarer07** · 03-28-2008, 10:01 PM

Firefox displays results such as this, because it is very forgiving to incorrectly coded documents. I'm guessing the Explorer did not display the divs?

**LadynRed** · 03-29-2008, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Firefox displays results such as this, because it is very forgiving to incorrectly coded documents.

No, it isn't. Firefox is far LESS forgiving to bad coding than IE's loosey-goosey behavior.

**wayfarer07** · 04:16 PM

Quote:

No, it isn't. Firefox is far LESS forgiving to bad coding than IE's loosey-goosey behavior.

On the contrary. Although Explorer is definitely less standard of a browser, in my experience Firefox is much more forgiving if you forget to close a tag in XHTML, place depreciated attributes into Strict-mode documents, etc. Firefox will display documents that are completely invalid. Explorer is much less forgiving in many instances. If you don't believe me, make a document in Strict mode of XHTML, that has many unclosed tags, and depreciated attributes everywhere, then preview it in both Firefox and Explorer. Not that I recommend doing this regularly. Plus, as pointed out in the first post, Firefox will even display a <div> that is in the <head> of the document! This is obviously completely invalid for HTML 4.01.

I think it is more correct to say that Firefox will display correctly coded documents correctly, but will do its best to display incorrectly coded documents as if they were correctly coded.