|  | Posted by gavin on 06/06/05 12:49 
Thanks for all the info.
 This:
 >> <div id=menu>
 >> <a onclick="P7_swapClass(1,'sub1','sectionon','sectionoff','div')"
 >> href="javascript:;">
 
 was borrowed for a tutorial site.  I just copy and pasted it!
 
 I think alot of the problem is that all of this code has been imported from
 frontpage (oooooo :() ) ! I am fairly new to dreamweaver and it is causing
 me a few problems!
 
 Thanks for all the advice though.
 
 Gavin.
 
 
 "David Dorward" <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in message
 news:d7vikh$lrp$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
 > Gavin wrote:
 >
 >> I have the code below in my html page:
 >>
 >> <div id=menu>
 >> <a onclick="P7_swapClass(1,'sub1','sectionon','sectionoff','div')"
 >> href="javascript:;">
 >
 > Why is this an anchor?
 >
 > Why doesn't the href point to anything useful?
 >
 >> On
 >>             Air...</a> </font>
 >
 > You have a </font>, but no <font> (not that you should be using the font
 > element anyway - it *is* 2005 now).
 >
 > You should probably pay a visit to http://validator.w3.org/
 >
 >> 1</a> <a hre
 >
 > Nothing between anchors except white space, this isn't a good idea. The
 > links will tend to blur into each other and be difficult to tell apart.
 >
 > Since you appear to have a list of links, why doesn't your markup reflect
 > that? http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
 >
 >
 >>     font-family: Verdana;
 >
 > The trouble with Verdana is that it encourages authors to use very small
 > fonts. This wouldn't be too bad if you could be certain that every visitor
 > will have Verdana installed (its more readable then most fonts at very
 > small sizes), but you can't.
 >
 >>     font-size: 18pt;
 >
 > Browsers are not very good at knowing the correct DPI of the system, so
 > the
 > point unit is highly inappropriate for use on screen. It also causes
 > additional problems in Internet Explorer since that browser provides no
 > convenient way to resize text specified in points.
 >
 > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints
 >
 >> #menu a:link, #menu a:active, #menu a:visited, #menu a {
 >>  color: #000000;
 >
 > It isn't a very good idea to set visited and unvisited links to be the
 > same
 > colour - you remove a very useful visual clue from the user by doing so.
 >
 >>  font-size: 11px;
 >
 > 11px is very small (see my previous point about Verdana), and also suffers
 > from the resizing issue in MSIE.
 >
 > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPixels
 >
 >> I have a CSS file saying what the menu tags should be formated like, but
 >> when the new drop down menu appears it doesn't display any text or links?
 >
 > Since you have failed to provide a complete set of code to recreate this
 > problem, its rather difficult to tell. Try providing a URL to a live
 > example (URLs are much between then a bunch of files since whomever
 > decides
 > to help would have to recreate your files, which takes time - and they
 > aren't being paid to help you).
 >
 > I'd suggest you fix any machine detectable syntax errors though. (Some
 > good
 > reasons for that can be found at
 > http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you )
 >
 > --
 > David Dorward       <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/>   <http://dorward.me.uk/>
 >                     Home is where the ~/.bashrc is
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