Hi all,
This is an interesting malfunction and I'd be interested if anyone's seen it before. It's specific to Firefox, so if you'd like to try it in IE, then Firefox, you'll see what I'm talking about. Go to http://www.alternium.net/marco and click through the left menu. All the links target to the main frame except for "Advertise" which acts like it's broken. The links are all formatted the same:

<A HREF="advertise.html" target="main" 
onMouseOver="document.advertise.src='art/g_advertise2.gif'" 
onMouseOut="document.advertise.src='art/g_advertise1.gif'">
<center><IMG SRC="art/g_advertise1.gif" BORDER="0" NAME="advertise" style="margin-bottom:4px; margin-top:3px;"></center></a>

<A HREF="fleet.html"  target="main"
onMouseOver="document.fleet.src='art/g_fleet2.gif'"
onMouseOut="document.fleet.src='art/g_fleet1.gif'">
<center><IMG SRC="art/g_fleet1.gif" BORDER="0" NAME="fleet" style="margin-bottom:4px; margin-top:3px;"></center></a>

For space considerations, I'll not post all the source code for the relevant pages, but if you take a look at them (http://www.alternium.net/marco/mt_interface.html, http://www.alternium.net/marco/advertise.html, http://www.alternium.net/marco/exclusives.html) you might be able to find what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks for your help!

First of all, it is totally inappropriate to have that <center> tag INSIDE a link !
Remove it. IE is much more loosey-goosey about such syntax errors, Firefox, the more standards compliant browser is NOT forgiving.

For the record, I found nothing wrong with the functionality of any of the links in FF.

I have to say, that's some ugly code. I hope you aren't worried about search engines with all those awful frames.

Thanks for the note about the center tag. I was in a hurry and in practical experience, precedence has seemed pretty arbitrary in HTML, but I understand it's not good style.
I really wish you could replicate the problem I'm having since I've seen it happen in firefox on two different computers, so i know it's the way FF is interpreting my code.

As for the "awful frames," when I started this, I wasn't all that comfortable with divs, and I wanted to make a frame solution, so I did what I knew. Now, I could, conceivably, re-do it, but it already fits within my clients' requirements and to make it any prettier would just be wasting my time and their money.

Also, I don't understand what a search crawler would have difficulty finding the pages of the site. Each page has a unique URL and is linked from the interface which is framed within the index page. What crawler is going to have a problem with this?


Lastly, I would like to invite anyone else who wished to respond to do so with some sense of professional courtesy. Simply saying my code is "ugly" does neither me nor you any service. If something seems wrong, offer a recommendation for fixing it or ask for a justification.

Thanks.

What crawler is going to have a problem with this

They don't any more

although any user who is unlucky enough to find those pages will be leaving just as quickly, because they have nowhere else to go.

What happens when they land on http://www.alternium.net/marco/advertise.html and think "I'd like to have one of those".
Hmmm????

What would you do???? and you have less than 10 seconds in which to decide.

What happens when they land on http://www.alternium.net/marco/advertise.html and think "I'd like to have one of those".
Hmmm????

Excellent point.
Thank you for your advice.