Friggin' lines!!

[Vanda]

Okay sorry for the exclamation marks but I'm just a bit frustrated right now. I can't seem to get rid of the underlines for the text right above the contact me link. What gives?
I must be doing something wrong because of course it's not supposed to be there.
Can anyone help?
Just to clarify it's the graphic ills, images to fit etc. and the remaining text underneath. And apparently you can click on it and it takes you up to the top of the page. Not supposed to do that either it's just supposed to be plain ole text.
The only text link is Contact me.
Thanks for any answers that may help.

[Siddan]

would be better of to show what your code is and perhaps even the page you need help with. Not even sure if it is a link that you don´t want the underline or the plain text.. then you mention about an image?

[Vanda]

Graphic Ills (http://www.graphic-ills.com)
It is listed in my profile info but I did actually mean to include the address in my post.

[Siddan]

I have copied a part of your source code. Apparently you are missing one end tag >

<DIV CLASS="Slice-11">
<a href="http://graphic-ills.com/Orchids2.html"</a>
<img src="orchidsjadebutton_01.gif" border="0" onmouseover="this.src='orchidsjadebutton_01-over.gif'" onmouseout="this.src='orchidsjadebutton_01'" ALT="Orchids button">
</DIV>
<DIV CLASS="Slice-12">
<p>Graphic Ills © 2005</p>
<p>Unique images to fit your image</p>
<p>For questions regarding this site and any content therein send email to
April Bear</p>

</DIV>


this might cause so that the hole slice 12 is linked aswell, and therefore have the underline

[Vanda]

From what part of the code am I missing the end tag?

[Triumph]

Originally posted by Vanda
From what part of the code am I missing the end tag? Look at the part that was posted in red text. :)

[CarolW]

Originally posted by Vanda
From what part of the code am I missing the end tag?

Very interesting work you do, Vanda! Looks great! I'll look more, later. For now: methinks you're not validating your pages with W3C; would that be right? I'm guessing that, because (I think it was) Siddan (who) remarked on your missing an end tag. Did you know that W3C can help you find that kind of error? It's really great! I've caught many an error that way, even though I'm very fledgling as a web-maker.

Also, I went to look to see what was giving you such troubles,and I clicked on that underlined area, and reached a differnt page on your site, and now I can't find your Home page from there! Am I just missing seeing a link? That could be; I'm sooooo tired!

And it's spelled "lewd," not "lude." Thought you might like to know. (That's on the page you posted the link to here.)

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:35:43

[Vanda]

I have in fact used the css validator and one for html as well. But it was before I started adding the pages for the orchids and the artwork. I haven't seen if those will validate just yet.
And oops on the spelling. For the most part I'm really good about doing it correctly. It's just that lewd doesn't look right. lol. It is but it looks strange. I used the shortened form of a drug or pill and I didn't mean to! lol Oh well it will be fixed though.
And yeah it's not supposed to be taking you anywhere on another part of the page. The only part of that small bit of text that should be underlined as a link is the "Contact Me" portion. :confused:
I haven't done any work to the site in a couple of weeks. But I will soon.
Thanks for the comments so far :D

[Vanda]

Okay just added a new image to the artwork gallery. So feel free to take a look please. (kitty girl) She's my little try at an anime (sp?) character.
I ran the css and html code through the validator and they came out great but I still have those damn lines underneath the text that is right above the contact me link. It's like they're still trying to be a link. I figured by validating the code it would indicate my mistake somewhere...but nothing. So I'm not even sure how to fix it. If anyone can think of something I would appreciate it. I don't have any missing end tags or anything that I can see. So what the heck?

[NogDog]

I see this in at least 2 places:

<a href="http://graphic-ills.com/imagegallery.html"</a>

You need to close the <a> tag, and I'm guessing maybe you want something between it and the </a> tag?

[CarolW]

Originally posted by NogDog
I see this in at least 2 places:

<a href="http://graphic-ills.com/imagegallery.html"</a>

You need to close the <a> tag, and I'm guessing maybe you want something between it and the </a> tag?

This is really also a reply to Vanda - hi, Vanda! My notes were maybe premature, dealing with stuff you would have gotten around to; my own site has half of nothing on it, while I fledge <g>. But a question to you, NogDog; wouldn't the W3C Validation service normally catch that missing ">" for the <a tag? Seems to catch such things when I use the service.

So, Vanda, I wonder if you are putting off the validation maybe longer than you need to, trying to get everything perfect before you validate?

Yet also, I have had experiences similar to yours, that is, I definitely had errors in my layout, yet my file validated. So what might cause that? I figure, errors elsewhere that appear to cancel things out, because how could an online validation service determine your desired visual stuff, or your content? I figure it couldn't <g>.

Probably the only assistance for that sott of stuff is either present in these forums, or pointed to from here - such as as pointing to FireFox and the Web Developer extension - (hmmm; I have that; I should try it - see the Desk Jet thread) - and I think very much of Ray's pointing to Zeldman's book and other similarly helpful works, in no uncertain terms, haha! Not to mention MstrBob's pointing to the work numbers of people here are doing together for web developers.

Of course,this appears maybe to slow us down, but I think in the long run, it speeds us up <g>.

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:02:45