help with tables

Jeff

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Apr 10, 2007, 10:22:21 PM4/10/07

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Hi

I have a webpage that looks fine in Firefox but that displays badly in IE6.
I am new at this and therefore cannot figure out what is wrong with it.

The url is http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm

In IE6 the column on the right appears under the middle column instead of at
the right. It displays correctly in Firefox. What am I doing wrong in my
coding? How do I correct for this?

Thanks.

Jeff

Adrienne Boswell

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Apr 10, 2007, 11:51:57 PM4/10/07

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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jeff" <Will...@naol.com>
writing in news:oDXSh.20820$YJ4....@newsfe23.lga:

Please do not take offense, but, your site looks so 90's. You are using
very outdated, bloated markup. Please start by validating your document
http://validator.w3.org then look up some tutorials on CSS, specifically
three column layout.

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Jeff

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Apr 11, 2007, 9:38:41 AM4/11/07

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Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jeff" <Will...@naol.com>
> writing in news:oDXSh.20820$YJ4....@newsfe23.lga:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a webpage that looks fine in Firefox but that displays badly
>> in IE6. I am new at this and therefore cannot figure out what is
>> wrong with it.
>>
>> The url is http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm
>>
>> In IE6 the column on the right appears under the middle column
>> instead of at the right. It displays correctly in Firefox. What am
>> I doing wrong in my coding? How do I correct for this?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jeff
>
> Please do not take offense, but, your site looks so 90's. You are
> using very outdated, bloated markup. Please start by validating your
> document http://validator.w3.org then look up some tutorials on CSS,
> specifically three column layout.

I am not offended. It was written in the 90's and it used to work but I
recently noticed that it no longer worked in IE. Since learning newer
techniques will take time, is there any way to fix it rapidly using its
present code technique? As you quickly noted, I am no html or programming
guru. Just trying to put out some useful content up.

Looking for quick help

Jeff
P.S. It works fine in Firefox

Jeff

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Apr 11, 2007, 9:45:13 AM4/11/07

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Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jeff" <Will...@naol.com>
> writing in news:oDXSh.20820$YJ4....@newsfe23.lga:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a webpage that looks fine in Firefox but that displays badly
>> in IE6. I am new at this and therefore cannot figure out what is
>> wrong with it.
>>
>> The url is http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm
>>
>> In IE6 the column on the right appears under the middle column
>> instead of at the right. It displays correctly in Firefox. What am
>> I doing wrong in my coding? How do I correct for this?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>
> Please do not take offense, but, your site looks so 90's. You are
> using very outdated, bloated markup. Please start by validating your
> document http://validator.w3.org then look up some tutorials on CSS,
> specifically three column layout.

I did check it with the above validator, but I have to admit my knowledge of
HTML is so meagre that most of the errors it showed were just additional
puzzles for me. Can anyone help me quickly correct the bad code that is
making the page not work in IE?

It looks like learning to program will take me a long time to achieve.

Jeff

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Apr 11, 2007, 9:57:36 AM4/11/07

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Solved the problem

It the W3 validator led me to the problem.

Jeff

Adrienne Boswell

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Apr 11, 2007, 10:51:13 AM4/11/07

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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jeff" <Will...@naol.com> writing

in news:S26Th.8810$2q7....@newsfe19.lga:

90% of the time, validating will lead you to solve your problem.