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**goodness me** · 07-26-2008, 04:17 AM

I’m using IE 6.0 and Notepad Version 5.1 to write my webpage; one notepad has been saved with the extension .html and the other has been saved as an external stylesheet with the .css extension. The photo has been sized and compressed with a .JPEG extension.

I have two challenges:
A) The id selector and class selector does not work for a photo
(B) the id selector works for text, padding etc but the class selector will not work at all.

At the top of the html source code I have typed:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//w3c/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/htm14/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css.css">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Example of id written in the body of html "that works":
<div id=”test”>Will it work?</div>
In .css
#test{color: red}

Example class written in the body of html that "does not work":
<div id=”test”
<p class=”problem”>Will it work?</p>
</div>
In .css
#test .problem {color: red}

No other code exists. Can someone offer some resolution please.

**chrishirst** · 07-26-2008, 06:44 AM

your second example has the closing bracket missing from <div id="test">

Also the "quotes" used are NOT actual quote marks (ASCII 34) but ASCII #2DD

**goodness me** · 07-26-2008, 08:55 AM

Whooo....Hooooo....Thanks Chrishirst.

I went through the rest of the code in my original .html and .css documents and discovered the > was missing - just as you said. I also found a missing closing div tag. Thanks mate; couldn't have done it without you.

Not sure how to change the ASC11 (I'm willing to learn) but things now work much better than before.

Weather here in New Zealand is terrible at the moment; we're in the middle of a weather bomb so I hope your climates more kind to you.

**wayfarer07** · 07-26-2008, 10:04 AM

If I were you, I wouldn't be using IE6 as my primary testing browser, and would instead start in Firefox, which is much more standards-compliant, and also has some great debugging tool available for it.

If you get used to the way IE6 displays things, you will form a lot of bad habits that will be hard to get rid of. Start in the better browsers and work your way backwards.

**chrishirst** · 07-27-2008, 03:51 AM

Quote:

Not sure how to change the ASC11 (I'm willing to learn) but things now work much better than before.

That may be an issue between the text editor and what your keyboard returns for shift+2

**goodness me** · 07-29-2008, 08:34 AM

Thanks for your advice wayfarer; at the moment we're on dial-up because broadband here is quite expensive; by the end of next month we'll be on broadband and I'll be able to download Firefox then. In the meantime I have to make do.

**firebladeiii** · 08-01-2008, 06:45 AM

so why you want to kick your laptop?

**goodness me** · 08-01-2008, 09:01 AM

Hi firebladeiii,

Thanks a mint for the link. I've now got Firefox; it was all up and running within 30 minutes, so it's all cool bananas at the moment.

I opened my page in Firefox then looked at the source code. That certainly uplifted me because the different colours made things so easy to follow.

It's a great help. Thanks a million.