I can't seem to find this out anywhere...

what does <!-- stand for?

it's on my page but the <!-- gets replaced with ..

so it wont allow <!--
and it changes them into
..

any help?

any way around it? or a substitute?

It's the beginning of a comment. See http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/all.html#html-comments


Didn't quite understand that part...

ok i figured out the comment part..thx for that help

but one other question if you will

This page is for myspace and when I upload to geocities or some free webserver it displays fine. but thru myspace it has to go thru a filter.


This is what it's suppost to look like



instead when i put it on myspace, it would change the }#Layer into what you see in the pic below. Why is this? how can I prevent it?

&_#_035; is the enitity for the hash symbol, and the myspace parser (a program that checks any encoded document) is too clever for it's own boots - the same thing (in reverse) happens if you preview before posting on this site.... which is why I have used &_#_035; ... I tried &_amp;_#035; - and it didn't workl!

Anyhow



You can try again, with #LayerX instead of &_#_035;LayerX and maybe, if you don't make ANY revisions, it might work

A line of 'white space' before the #LayerX might help too... might...

However, even if that works there's a high chance that next time you do make an update, it might simply revert to the enity codes

A long term fix? Contact the owners of the site and ask them to fix what is a bug - unless of course they don't want id divs in stylesheets...