Screwy pages again

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Dennis

Hi,

I am still getting very screwy pages when I view my web pages in IE6. I have
completely disabled Nortons firewall and antivirus (and rebooted), deleted
all FP temp files and .web files, published my online site to my local
computer and repaired server extensions 2002.

I am creating a promotional gateway page for a client that needs to be
finished by tomorrow. The page I am having a problem with is
www.leisuretours.co.nz/super.htm (is basically a slightly edited version of
the default page of the site). I have uploaded the screen shots of what I am
seeing here www.leisuretours.co.nz/screwy.htm.

I just looked at super.htm and the include is working now with Nortons
enabled but my local pages are still screwy. I am really confused. I will
send a post to the IE newsgroup and send a support ticket to Nortons (which
probably wont get a response) but though I would try here one more time for
some advice.

I don't have Netscape installed to test the site in that.
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

You are using the FP Include Page Component, and you have created a major problem by removing the
standard HTML page tags from the page that is being included.

You are missing:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta tag....>
</head>
<body>

Your Table content

</body>
</html>

In order for the FP Include Page component to work correctly, you can not remove the standard HTML
tags from the page to be include unless you are using standard ASP/.Net or SSI Includes.

Review and fix all pages, especially those to be included, to make sure that they have a complete
set of tags.

Note: Any content that is NOT between the body tags of page to be included in another page via FP
Shared Borders or FP Include Page component, will not be included in other pages, so links to
external .css or .js file will not be accessible once the page have been included.
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Dennis

Thanks for that Thomas. The only htm pages are the default ones as most of
the site is asp.net. I just used the same include for the htm as the aspx
and it worked so I didn't worry about it. I'll remember to keep the head
content intact if I am using FP include in the future.

Still got a pretty screwy display problem though haven't I?
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Avoid using Absolute Positioning, use tables instead.

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D

Dennis

Hmmm, nothing is set to absolute positioning. I always use percentage with
main tables and always include my content in tables. The main table is set
to center and at 95% width.
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Ok, since these are all basic HTML page double check that you tables have matching sets of tags,
that the width of the cells equals 100% of the table width, that all page have correct set of tags,
especially ending </body> and </html> tags after the includes have been included, etc. You may want
to consider re-doing these page from scratch.

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Dennis

I have checked all matching tags and cells/tables - all looks ok. I saved
and loaded the site again in localhost at it all messed up. I then published
the site and viewed in browser and all looked fine.

It seems to be something funky with my local setting (IIS or server
extensions) not IE as the page is fine online. I have checked IE setting for
local intranet and set them to low. I tried to find the IE repair tool but
couldn't. I can't find that for FP either.

I think in the past when I have had this problem (as it seems to be when I
publish a site to my localhost), I have just recreated the whole site and I
think that has worked. I have just created a page from scratch now and the
tables are still very messed up (www.leisuretours.co.nz/super1.htm).

If I remove all the include pages, the page works fine. I have checked code
in the includes www.leisuretours.co.nz/header_html.htm and
www.leisuretours.co.nz/_borders/left.htm and looks ok to me. Perhaps I
should just use some html code for the includes (can't remember the code)
and not FP includes. Also should I completely remove server extensions on
my machine? I have already done a server extensions test and repair but that
didn't work.
 
M

Murray

I have looked in IE6 and FF0.8/WXPPro, and the page looks fine to me. Or
should I dig more deeply into the site?
 
D

Dennis

That seems to be the thing Murray. Every thing is fine online (mostly with
me but sometimes not). It is only when I am testing locally that there are
problems. That is why I am leaning more towards it being a server extensions
problem than an IE problem.
 
D

Dennis

I have just found my server extensions 2002 download and reinstalled
(repaired) but that didn't help.
 
M

Murray

Ahh - I geddit....

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Murray

Dennis said:
That seems to be the thing Murray. Every thing is fine online (mostly with
me but sometimes not). It is only when I am testing locally that there are
problems. That is why I am leaning more towards it being a server extensions
problem than an IE problem.


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