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paramindsoftware@gmail.com

2007-05-21, 6:19 pm

At this link:

http://www.ghostnets.com/Global_Warming_Event_3.htm

There is an orphan bullet at the schedule.

There is no difference in the code. It reminds me of some kind of
<li> type
behavior. Does anyone know how to get rid of it?



--
Robert Pearson
ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net
Creative Virtue Press/Telical Books/Regenerative Music
http://www.rspearson.com

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2007-05-21, 6:19 pm

paramindsoftware@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> At this link:
>
> http://www.ghostnets.com/Global_Warming_Event_3.htm
>
> There is an orphan bullet at the schedule.


Where? In this?

<p>
<p>
<br>

<strong>11:00 AM EDT Tue, June 19, 2007</strong> Gary Machlis from the
University of Idaho <br/>

Do you mean that square thing? It's in your HTML.

This 'schedule' should be in a list.
<ul>
<li><strong>11:00 AM EDT Tue, June 19, 2007</strong> Gary Machlis from
the University of Idaho</li>
<li> ... <li>
</ul>

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
John Hosking

2007-05-21, 6:19 pm

paramindsoftware@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:
> At this link:
>
> http://www.ghostnets.com/Global_Warming_Event_3.htm
>
> There is an orphan bullet at the schedule.
>
> There is no difference in the code. It reminds me of some kind of
> <li> type
> behavior. Does anyone know how to get rid of it?


I don't understand. When I look at the code I see

2. Click on Download and enjoy.
<p>
<p>
<br>


<strong>11:00 AM EDT Tue, June 19, 2007</strong> Gary Machlis from the
University of Idaho <br/>


which contains your orphan bullet in the code. Delete it with a simple
editor (Notepad, for example), and you're done. Right?

Maybe you shouldn't rely solely on Fireworks 8 and Dreamweaver 8 to
produce your code. If your WYSIWYG editor is adding weird stuff you will
Get things you can't See. Anyway, the markup is rather unlovely, so you
might find it useful to improve your knowledge of HTML.


> --
> Robert Pearson


You are missing the space following the two dashes in your sig separator.

--
John
paramindsoftware@gmail.com

2007-05-21, 6:19 pm

Thanks. I personally use Super Notetab and I just inherited the code.
I tried to see the changes and all I see is that the <br> tags were
<br/>.
but this didn't fix it.

I put a space after the two dashes. =)
--
Robert Pearson
ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net
Creative Virtue Press/Telical Books/Regenerative Music
http://www.rspearson.com


On May 21, 2:07 pm, John Hosking <J...@DELETE.Hosking.name.INVALID>
wrote:
> paramindsoftw...@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I don't understand. When I look at the code I see
>
> 2. Click on Download and enjoy.
> <p>
> <p>
> <br>
>
> <strong>11:00 AM EDT Tue, June 19, 2007</strong> Gary Machlis from the
> University of Idaho <br/>
>
> which contains your orphan bullet in the code. Delete it with a simple
> editor (Notepad, for example), and you're done. Right?
>
> Maybe you shouldn't rely solely on Fireworks 8 and Dreamweaver 8 to
> produce your code. If your WYSIWYG editor is adding weird stuff you will
> Get things you can't See. Anyway, the markup is rather unlovely, so you
> might find it useful to improve your knowledge of HTML.
>
>
> You are missing the space following the two dashes in your sig separator.
>
> --
> John



paramindsoftware@gmail.com

2007-05-21, 6:19 pm

Thanks. I did finally see the orphan bullet, but the funny thing is
that it wasn't in the code until I correctly put the list tags in.


--
Robert Pearson
ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net
Creative Virtue Press/Telical Books/Regenerative Music
http://www.rspearson.com

Bergamot

2007-05-21, 6:19 pm

paramindsoftware@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:
>
> http://www.ghostnets.com/Global_Warming_Event_3.htm
>
> There is an orphan bullet at the schedule.


I see a rogue character in the source:
-------------------------------
2. Click on Download and enjoy.
<p>
<p>
<br>


<strong>11:00 AM EDT ...
-------------------------------

I tried changing the encoding to see if something more identifiable
would appear, but it didn't.

--
Berg
Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2007-05-21, 10:22 pm

Beauregard T. Shagnasty replied to hisself:
> Where? In this?
>
> <p>
> <p>
> <br>

<snip>

Heh. Reading my post in Dialog, that square thing, and everything after
it, turns into a bright red bar! How bizarre.

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
Dan

2007-05-24, 6:28 pm

On May 21, 5:42 pm, "paramindsoftw...@XXXXXXXXXX"
<paramindsoftw...@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:
> Thanks. I personally use Super Notetab and I just inherited the code.
> I tried to see the changes and all I see is that the <br> tags were
> <br/>.
> but this didn't fix it.


Which form you use depends on your doctype; if it's HTML it should be
<br>, while if it's XHTML it should be <br />. You shouldn't mix the
two in the same document.

--
Dan

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