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One very strange thing to me is that when I do put a title in the <head> </head> on my header page, it gets completely ignored. The title tag doesn't even show up in the source code when I validate at the W3 validator. Also, the validator says my <head> tag is ending prematurely, but I can find nothing at all outside of it that would need to go in!
Anyway, the only way I can get a title to show up is if I put it outside of the header file, in the main file. But if I do that, then when the file gets read, it sticks the title up on top, above the doctype, which causes the doctype to be ignored and creates a great big mess of validation errors.
I'd really like for this page to validate, if at all possible. I mean, it LOOKS fine to me putting the title in the main page rather than the header, but I don't think it reads the doctype anymore.
I can sticky a link to the page if someone wants to see. It would probably help.
Thanks, and I hope that made at least a little sense!
-Tobyn
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="robots" content="all" />
<title>Title here</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="test/dynacrumbs.js"></script>
<style type="text/css" media="all">
@import "test/vu.css";
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container2">
<div id="top">
<img src="images/welcome4.gif" alt="Welcome to the Viking Union/Student Administration" id="welcomeimg" />
<a href="#"><img src="images/room-reservations.gif" alt="For information on room reservations at the VU, click here!" id="reservationimg" /></a>
</div>
<div id="leftcontent2">
<div id="linkdiv2">
<hr id="hr" />
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.google.com">Today's Events</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.yahoo.com">A & E Information</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">Recreation Programs</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">AS Programs and Organizations</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">Services</a></div>
<!-- <div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">Room Reservations</a></div> -->
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">Fee Schedules</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">Dining</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">FAQs</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">Staff Directories</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">Policies</a></div>
<div class="link"><a href="http://www.lycos.com">Associated Students</a></div>
</div>
<div id="vumain2"></div>
</div>
<div id="rightcontent2">
<div id="test">
<div id="box1">
<img src="images/whats-new.gif" id="whatsnew" alt="What's New in the VU?" />
<div id="divider"></div>
<a href="#"><img src="images/housing-registry.gif" id="housingregistry" alt="Off-Campus Housing Registry"/></a>
<a href="#"><img src="images/rider-driver.gif" id="riderdriver" alt="Need a ride? Want to offer a ride? Click here!"/></a>
</div>
<div id="box2">
<a href="http://www.somesite.edu"><img src="images/somesite.gif" id="somesite2" alt="Visit the University Homepage" /></a>
</div>
</div>
<!-- <div id="right2">
my oh my
</div> -->
<!-- //END header file -->
and then the opening lines of my main page...
<?include "config.php";
include "$union_path/header.php";?>
at one point in time I had a $title="Arts and Entertainment"; in there, but it wasn't showing up either, even when I had the echo in the title tag of the header...
[edited by: jatar_k at 11:10 pm (utc) on Aug. 10, 2004]
[edit reason] generalized [/edit]
Thanks again,
Tobyn
EDIT: I've checked it in both IE and Firefox, and they both don't read the title tag.
Also, the comment tags show exactly where my header and footer files end and begin.
The first thing that comes to mind is that maybe you have two different versions of header.php and you are making changes to one but it is the other that is being included?
I know that sounds strange but I have done that very thing...uploaded a page to the wrong folder and couldn't for the life of me figure out why my changes weren't being reflected.
I just can't see any reason why that one particular line of code woulnd't print to the browser screen.
Could the above be a possibility?
Now it works like a charm! I even got it to echo the title from each individual page! Now it validates as XHTML 1.0 strict, and it works just how I wanted it to.
Thanks a bunch! :)
-Tobyn
