Text Flashing on and off

Does anyone know what's causing this?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I have just built a website using Dreamweaver and in both Opera and Netscape all the text apart from hyperlinks flashes on and off. It's OK in IE6. Can anyone suggest what's wrong with this?

(Apologies if it's something obvious that I'm doing wrong. I'm not an expert!)

[BonRouge]

Can you maybe post some code?

[adni18]

This has happened on numerous occasions to myself, although I don't use Dreamweaver. Have you tried the code on other computers?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

BR, I have stickied you the URL.

[BonRouge]

BeeDeeDubbleU,
I hate to fill the thread with personal messages, but I haven't received that stickymail and I'm guessing you don't know that (although I've sent a message to tell you).

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Thanks, you should have it now.

[BonRouge]

I added a strict DTD, moved some styling from your tables into the head, corrected some syntax (missing end-tags, too many tags, etc) and then I saw it - the most obvious reason for text flashing on and off - you (or someone else) told it to!

.BodytextsmallGrey {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
border: #CCCCCC;
color: #333333;
text-decoration: blink;
}

.BodytextsmallBlk {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
border: #CCCCCC;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: blink;
}

.style2 {font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; border: #CCCCCC; color: #000000; text-decoration: blink; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}

Remove these and you'll be fine. You may a trouble editing this in Dreamweaver because you're using a Dreamweaver template. Open the file in Notepad and edit it there.

A quick comment though - you have way too much code there. You should take all of the stuff about borders and fonts and put it in the css. There are other things you're using there which can be done a lot more simply and cleanly in the css - like 'align:center'.
But then again, I have pages I made ages ago that have the same stuff and I never get around to fixing them...

Anyway - problem solved.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Bonrouge many thanks for that. I should have seen it myself but sometimes you don't notice the obvious. My problem is that I am actually an engineer and I am still learning about web design. I'll get there in the end :)