jaklitsch maya wrote:

>I have a problem with ie6. The page is displayed
>correctly in ff.
>
>So do I need to use a hack to remove this extra right
>side space?  
>
Hi Maya,
I was thinking about:

body { width: 100%; }

div#container { height: auto; margin: .25em auto 3em auto; }

to make things easier for IE to handle (also in the top-margin IE is displaying 
strange white things.


>It was suggested that I validate the page and that
>then the page would display correctly in ie.
>
>I managed to remove most of the error but am stuck
>with several errors that absolutly will not go away.
>The extra space still shows up in ie6
>  
>
Yes, it seems not enough to add a conditional comment for IE with

#content {margin-right: 3px;}

But: Ha! Some good commenting out (first the whole "content": everything 
was o.k. in IE; then piece by piece "commenting in"), and I've found the 
culprit.
It must be in the lines 438 to 445: commenting out these lines is good 
for IE!
And further on: it must be in the blockquote. Indeed, the one starting 
with "Alas!" ... ;-)
That's him! But why?
Looking at the page I saw it is italic text. /Italic/? And *IE*? O! 
Perhaps ...
A piece of PIE: Italic and IE bugs 
<http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/italicbug-ie.html>
And the good news: inserting the fix is working. :-)

[ Oops, waiting to long to send; I see George was first! ]

>The result of the validation - 
>
>Error Line 785 column 24: document type does not allow
>element "p" here; assuming missing "dd" start-tag.
>          <p class="leftspace">a. in our personal
>friendships?</p>
>
>a. the dd start-tag is NOT missing
>  
>
I see the 3 <p>'s in line 785, 786 and 787 in the middle of a definition 
list, in which the items have to be <dt> or <dd> [1].
But the <p>'s aren't inside a <dt> nor in a <dd>.

>Error Line 790 column 9: document type does not allow
>element "dd" here; assuming missing "dl" start-tag.
>      <dd>How are our Meetings enriching the lives of
>our children through inter
>
>b. the dl start-tag is NOT missing
>  
>
This one will be connected to the one before: it is the first line after 
the 3 <p>'s which aren't inside the <dl> starting at line 779. So the 
validator is assuming the <dd> of line 790 is the first item in a fresh 
definition list, and then a <dl> is missing. - If the 3 <p>'s are 
repaired, I guess this error will disappear.

>Error Line 1717 column 5: end tag for "dd" omitted,
>but OMITTAG NO was specified.
></div>
>You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps
>you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending
>it with "/>" instead of ">". 
>
>c. again no tag is missing or not closed
>
>Error Line 1717 column 5: end tag for "dl" omitted,
>but OMITTAG NO was specified.
></div>
>
>d. no dl tags were used here, so how can they be
>omitted. There is only a ul list nothing else.
>  
>
Also they are related. Apparently the html-validator can remark the 
"missing things" only at the end of the document (and "missing start 
tag" = "missing end tag" too!)
Compare html-Tidy, which gives only line 785 as a missing <dd>.

Greetings,
francky

>The url is
>http://www.quakercapecod.org/new/keynote2004.html
>
>I would welcome any help so I can resolve this issue.
>I know it is not css, but am totally clueless and I do
>not want to move from strict to transitional where
>this problem probably would not make my life
>miserable.
>
>Thank you for any help you can give me,
>
>MJ
>
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