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html only works for firefox

The attached code yields a blank page with ie, chrome & safari.
Must be missing something simple.

Please help? jack.xml

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Jack Goes Boating Official Website</title>

<link href="styles2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
margin: 0px;
margin-left: 10px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
a {
text-decoration: underline;
font-size: 12px;
color: #0093e3;
font-weight: bold;
}
strong {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 22px;
color: #666;
font-weight: bold;
}
iframe {
padding: 0px;
height: 430px;
width: 530px;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: none;
border-bottom-color: #CCC;
border-top-color: #CCC;
margin: 0px;
}
</style>
</head><body>
<!--<iframe src="jgbths.pdf">[Your browser has been configured not to display inline frames. You can access <a href="jgbths.pdf">the document</a> via a link though.]</iframe><br>
<a href="jgbths.pdf">Download PDF</a> -->
<script type="text/javascript">if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.open("GET","jack.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;
document.write("<table border='0'>");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("qry_Website_2");
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write("<tr><td><strong>");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("dma_name")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("</strong><tr><td>");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("theater_name")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<tr><td>");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("street_address1")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<tr><td>");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("street_city")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue.concat(" , ")) ;
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("street_state")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue.concat(" "));
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("street_zip_code")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<tr><td><a href='");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("Link")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue) ;
document.write("'>Get Tickets!</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td>") ;
document.write("<tr><td>") ;
document.write("<tr><td>") ;
}
document.write("</table>");
</script>
</body></html>

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wuff

Why haven't you an end tag to your comments in your <style> part?

springro

ASKER

Hi Ronan1979,

It does not work of the server. Something is still not right.

ronan1979

try this code - just remove incomplete html comments
I check on my computer, once I got it - and i will give you the code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Jack Goes Boating Official Website</title>

<link href="styles2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin: 0px;
margin-left: 10px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
a {
text-decoration: underline;
font-size: 12px;
color: #0093e3;
font-weight: bold;
}
strong {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 22px;
color: #666;
font-weight: bold;
}
iframe {
padding: 0px;
height: 430px;
width: 530px;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: none;
border-bottom-color: #CCC;
border-top-color: #CCC;
margin: 0px;
}
</style>
</head><body>

<script type="text/javascript">if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.open("GET","jack.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;
document.write("<table border='0'>");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("qry_Website_2");
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write("<tr><td><strong>");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("dma_name")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("</strong><tr><td>");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("theater_name")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<tr><td>");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("street_address1")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<tr><td>");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("street_city")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue.concat(" , ")) ;
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("street_state")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue.concat(" "));
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("street_zip_code")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<tr><td><a href='");
document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("Link")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue) ;
document.write("'>Get Tickets!</a></td></tr>");
document.write("<tr><td>") ;
document.write("<tr><td>") ;
document.write("<tr><td>") ;
}
document.write("</table>");
</script>
</body></html>

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ronan1979

this code works on IE6, FF3.5.3, safari4.0.4, chrome 6.0

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ronan1979

this code was tested on local server EasyPHP 2..0

jeremyjared74

You can check your html and CSS online. There are some very helpful sites for this. I will link to a few. This way you can check them in the future also.

HTML SItes:
http://www.htmlfixer.com/htmlfixer/
http://fixmyhtml.com/
http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input
http://schneegans.de/sv/

CSS:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
http://instantcsscode.com/
http://flumpcakes.co.uk/css/optimiser/

onemadeye

@springro:
I used XAMPP and also find blank page ??

But then I realised I havent include the file 'jack.xml' and now everything looks fine :)