HTML Forum

**vesco** · 05-11-2007, 03:11 AM

I had a site designed recently, since then I have been learning html- I looked at part of the code for my index page and there doesnt seem to be a </HEAD> tag present, could you look at the following code and tell me if i need to add the </HEAD> tag and if so where?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>

<TITLE>Onbike Scotland | Best biking roads in Scotland | DVD footage</TITLE>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">
<meta name="Keywords"content="Biking Scotland, Scottish roads, Scottish Biking, A82, A87, A887, A890, A896, A832, A816, A939, A826, A827, Northern Scotland, Central Scotland, Southern Scotland">
<meta name="Description" content="DVD footage of the roads in Scotland. Excellent for biking.">
<meta name="Publisher" content="www.netspacedesign.net">
<META name="verify-v1" content="fI4fPRdLazADbRh5GKQ5tbg14ydePmddP1nCuY/ZMcI=" />
<meta name="Author" content="netspace">
<meta name="Revisit-after" content="5 days">
<meta name="Classification" content="non-profit">
<meta name="Distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="Rating" content="Safe for Kids">
<meta name="Copyright" content="ICRfm">
<meta name="Language" content="en-uk">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/Favicon.ico">
<script language="javascript">
window.status="Designed & Produced by Netspace Copyright 2006";
</script>
<style type="text/css">

thanks

**chrishirst** · 04:48 PM

Well, nowhere in that code,

the head end tag </head> should go immediately before the body open tag <body>

**JeremyMiller** · 05-11-2007, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Well, nowhere in that code,

the head end tag </head> should go immediately before the body open tag </body>

He meant the open tag <body>

The code you've shown, however, is apparently incomplete as it end where a stylesheet would be expected. Perhaps there was more to the source that you missed as what you've got won't display anything.

**chrishirst** · 05-11-2007, 04:47 PM

Gremlins creeping onto my keyboard is my excuse

Good catch Jeremy

**dansgalaxy** · 05-12-2007, 11:39 AM

Also if you are learning it is much better to learn the latest, html 4.01 is now 2 versions behind the VERY latest. i would advise you start with XHTML Transitional. ionly really a couple of bits differant, but will help you alot when we all HAVE to amke it strict...

Its mainly things like making all tags in lower-case and taht look at w3c.org

You will learn alot.
Hope this helps.
Dan

**chrishirst** · 05-13-2007, 06:56 AM

Quote:

html 4.01 is now 2 versions behind the VERY latest

Nope the latest HTML version is 4.01.

the "later" versions you are considering are XHTML which is not a new version of HTML but an extension for use with XML and XSLT, and strictly speaking if you are not using XML you shouldn't be using XHTML doctypes

**dansgalaxy** · 05-13-2007, 10:23 AM

Ok... personally considering that they are no longer continuing html and xhtml is "taking over" form it i would class it as a newer version.

just the way i think obviously other people think differantly.

Dan

**chrishirst** · 05-13-2007, 11:18 AM

Quote:

personally considering that they are no longer continuing html and xhtml is "taking over"

Ok. Somebody had better tell the HTML 5 Working Group they should quit now then.

**dansgalaxy** · 05-13-2007, 11:46 AM

then obviously i am very wrong and everything i found on w3c was wrong

**HighVoltage123** · 05-14-2007, 06:14 AM

That seems strange: w3 aren't usually wrong

**Malatya** · 05-14-2007, 08:58 AM

new browsers can fix small html faults, i think this isnt a problem.you can use validators for this.

**chrishirst** · 05-17-2007, 04:33 AM

Quote:

then obviously i am very wrong and everything i found on w3c was wrong

Can we have a link to what you read?

BTW.
HTML5 was originally named "Web Applications 1.0" for "political reasons"

, but the working group is preparing to submit the HTML5 specification to the W3C for RC status.

**dansgalaxy** · 05-17-2007, 11:26 AM

That will probally be why...

**HighVoltage123** · 05-17-2007, 11:28 AM

I hate the problem with different browsers... A week ago something happened with one of my sites - when I open it with Firefix it's OK but when I try to open it with IE7 the header is moving right (almost 500 px) and the strange thing is that this is happening only on my machine - I tried it on every other computer in the office and it's OK

**dansgalaxy** · 05-17-2007, 11:36 AM

That could be to do with your screen resolution.

I hate it too on this page... http://calm.dansgalaxy.co.uk/sitedocs.php?id=privacy It looks fine in IE7 and IE6 Fine in FF bit in opera it goes messy...

Dan

**HighVoltage123** · 05-17-2007, 11:43 AM

It's not the resolution... And I've checked my code a billion times and it seems good - nothing's wrong with it... Whatever

btw the turtle is really cute

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-21-2007, 10:17 AM

That's your first mistake...no one ever spots errors in their own code. That doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong; it just means that we are the last people who should be checking for our own errors.

Put it up and let us all see it. Someone's bound to figure something out.

**dansgalaxy** · 12-21-2007, 02:31 PM

i have done that a few times too, u may look a right plonk sometimes and kick yourself but at least you get it right

a couple of times i have spendt hours staring at code trying to figure out why the bstar isnt working, i post it on here read what i wrote smack head usually remove post and apologise saying im stupid.