I came across a
strange issue last night while converting some XML data via an XSL template into
XHTML.
Issue 1: In the Head
section of my XHTML I had an empty script element (see below). IE refused
to load the page. FF had no problem with this.
<script type="text/_javascript_" src=""/>
To get IE past this
line in the markup I had to change the text to read:
<script type="text/_javascript_" src=""></script>
Issue 2: In
the body of my document I have an empty <div>. IE rendered the page correctly. FF didn't close the element, so my CSS didn't get implemented correctly.
<div
class="clear"/>
To allow FF to
process the div, I had to modify the line to:
<div
class="clear"></div>
I thought I
might need to add a space before the forward slash (ie. <div class="clear"
/>), but this didn't make any difference.
What's also
weird is that I have plenty of other self-closing elements in the document, but
these didn't break the
browsers.
While the problems
have both been resolved, I was just hoping there might be someone more fluent with FF & IE's processing of XHTML to explain why this occurred in
the first place.
Here's the URLs for
both pages:
http://www.lakemac.com.au/lakemac_final/pageTransformed_broken.html (breaks
in IE & FF)
Best Regards,
Paul Hempsall
Web Developer
Lake Macquarie City Council
Phone: (02) 4921-0713
Fax: (02) 4921-0566
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