URL = http://www.sambs.com/catering/rooms5.html

I'm a Mac user and only use Firefox and Safari. Apparently my website has one (??) page that won't render properly and always looks goofy in IE (and possibly other browsers, for all I know). The goofiness is along the left side of the page where the links are. Since I don't really know what I'm doing, I can't understand what's wrong. Any help would be so very appreciated....

In what way does it "look goofy" in MSIE?

Thanks for replying!

Here's a screen cap of it: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=13...5610&size=o

My husband has MSIE on his Mac, and the page looks fine on his computer. But three other people, who all use PCs, have told me it doesn't look right. One of them sent me the screen cap.

If you use IE, does it look OK to you?

Thanks again.

Since your site doesn't look good in IE, why don't you try to make an embedded CSS in HTML for IE; but before you insert <style type="text/css"> type <!--[if IE]> in the line above it. Then after you type </style>, type <![endif]--> on the next line.
Hope that helps!

Thanks so much for replying, SLS, and for your sound advice.

But.. CSS is completely new and uncharted territory for me, and while I hope to learn that someday soon, right now I just need to understand what's wrong with the page as it is. I can't imagine why it's rendering the way it is, and I really need to know. I need to be able to correct this problem at the basic html level before I can move on and tackle something new. I hope that makes sense, and thanks again....

Here's how it looks in IE6. "... along the left side of the page where the links are" doesn't really describe it, I'm afraid.

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Thanks, Pandy.

Gosh, it looks worse than I even knew.

Can anyone clue me in about what's wrong with the code?

My guess is that fixing the HTML error reported by the online validator might fix it. Layout tables with syntax errors like this are known to cause browser compatibility problems.

The page doesn't use CSS at all; it's an old-school layout table. Adding browser-specific CSS is unlikely to help.

While it's a good idea, it doesn't fix the problem I'm afraid. Already tried.

Wow cool!! Okay, an open tag causing the problem makes perfect sense. What doesn't make sense is that the W3 Validator didn't catch that open tag. (Live and learn.) I would never have wasted everyone's time with this problem, but since it passed the W3 Validator I assumed pesky things like open tags couldn't possibly be the cause.

A thousand thanks!


Kit Hubert