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**vegas** · 12-11-2006, 11:46 PM

Why will this show up in my editor, but will not show up in IE7?

Please help

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<html>
<head>Services form</head><br>
<title></hl><left>Tell us about your project </left></hl><title><br>

Input<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="heading of button" VALUE="button name">

input<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="heading of button" VALUE="button name">

other <INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="heading of button" VALUE="button name"><br>

Contact name <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" SIZE="30">

Contact number <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" SIZE="30"><br>
Please explain your project here<TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS=6 COLS=40>
</TEXTAREA>

</html>

**vangogh** · 12-12-2006, 02:21 AM

Try wrapping <form></form> tags around your form.

<form>
<input>
<input>
<textarea></textarea>
</form>

It also needs to be inside <body></body> tags. That's probably the reason you're not seeing anything since it's what's inside the <body></body> that the browser displays.

The basic structure for an html document is:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

You've also ended an </h1> twice without starting it. And I'm not sure what <left> is supposed to be.

I think the main reason you're not seeing the form though is because you're missing the <body> tags.

**The Critic** · 12-12-2006, 04:52 AM

You also forgot to close your <title> tag and you don't need breaks after </head> and </title>.

**vegas** · 12:09 PM

OK,

Thanks for help, I appreciate it. If you can't tell I'm new at this

It's still not working. Do I need this to be hosted for it to work (just on my desktop for now).

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<html>
<head><center>Services form</head></center><br>
<title><hl>Tell us about your project</hl><title><br>
<body>
<form>
input<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="heading of button" VALUE="button name">
input<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="heading of button" VALUE="button name">
other <INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="heading of button" VALUE="button name"><br>
Contact name <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" SIZE="30">
Contact number <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" SIZE="30"><br>
Please explain your project here<TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS=6 COLS=40>
</TEXTAREA>
</body></form>
</html>

**vegas** · 12-12-2006, 01:28 PM

Thanks again

**LadynRed** · 12-12-2006, 02:37 PM

Another thing, you cannot use html tags INSIDE your title tag, so dump the <h1> tags. You also do NOT need a <br> after your <title>. What's inside the <title> tag is what shows up on the title bar of the BROWSER, it does NOT show up on the PAGE.

This is also improper:

Quote:

<head><center>Services form</head></center><br>

the <head></head> section holds your meta tags, style and javascript links, your title and a few other things.. nothing else.

If you want "Services Form" on your page as a heading, it needs to be in the <body> section

<body>
<h1>Services From</h1>

<form>your form</form>
</body>

You might want to read up on HTML forms here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

**vangogh** · 12-12-2006, 03:47 PM

Glad to help Daniel and glad you got the page working. I forgot to add it before, but I was going to point you to the same link LadynRed posted above. W3Schools have some good beginner tutorials. They're easy to understand and pretty quick to get through, but if you do go through one it can really improve your skills pretty fast.

And remember to ask more questions any time you have them. Someone will be here to help.

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