site not compatible with ie (SOLVED)

[Cookie23]

Hi
Can anyone explain why in IE some of the pages in my website the entire text has become a link and some of the nav bar buttons have joined together. The site is fine in firefox and safari.

http://www.ellaleedesign.com/Ehc/cottage%20stables.html

many thanks

[Fearless_Shultz]

Hi There, Welcome to Techmonkeys!

You seem to have an unclosed a tag in your html here

Code:

<a href="http://www.availcheck.com/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi?propid=12108" target="_blank"
title=""><img src="images/availability.gif" width="103" height="25" alt="Availability Link" title="Availability Link" />

With regards to different browsers showing the page differently, some compensate for malformed markup in ways that others don't so that may be what is happening here.

[Cookie23]

Thanks. I've changed that and it seems to have helped with the link problem.
Thanks for your help.
As a note I can't find any info on 'malformed markup' are there any resources or is it just a case of learning better html? Apologies for my naive skills.

[Fearless_Shultz]

No problem Happy to help

With regards to the phrase malformed markup, that is just a general way of saying there was an error in the code, in this case not closing the a tag.

There are lots of ways of improving workflow to make it easier to spot errors like this, in my experience one of the best is to make sure that you are using a good html editor with good syntax highlighting that shows where elements start and end such as divs, a href tags etc. The one that I personally use is http://netbeans.org/ but there are lots of good ones out there.

You can also use things such as the W3C Validator http://validator.w3.org/ to check your code but depending on your experience level, that can be a bit overwhelming at first and might throw up a lot of things that are technically classed as problems but aren't affecting your page displaying to users.

One of the most common things that causes errors in html is forgetting to close tags and it is something that even the most experienced people do quite often so don't worry about it and feel free to ask any other questions

[Cookie23]

Thank you that is very useful and I proably will.....oh dear.
I have used that validator on other sites but they were ony simple 4 page sites that were easy to fix. This one threw up some stuff that really did scare me!
many thanks
C