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**chrisd1891** · 12-06-2009, 11:57 PM

Hey all,

So I've been dabbling in HTML this weekend, I've done some programming before but not HTML much. Anyway, my issue is that my site appears fine in firefox and chrome but is completely butchered in IE. I'm wondering my issue could be...

I validated my CSS file here...
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...ning=1&lang=en

And for some reason it won't validate my HTML file, it says the character encoding isn't supported. I wrote my html in notepad....is that a problem?

Anyway, my site is here,
www.cdphoto.uni.cc/ftproot/site

Thanks in advance for any help

**wayfarer07** · 12-07-2009, 08:34 AM

This line:

HTML Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html: charset=windows 1252">

Is your character encoding problem. Firefox and Chrome probably just ignore it and default to UTF-8:

HTML Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Also, it is a good idea to place a proper DOCTYPE at the very top of the page, right before the opening html tag:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

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