Cannot View Page Source

cannot view page source in IE

[spitos]

I have recently been putting myself through agony to make my site w3c compliant!

It now uses css, but since I have made the changes it acts erratic in IE.
Often the page source cannot be viewed until the page is refreshed and I try again.
The main content in the center div also acts weird in IE and sometimes displays at the bottom of my page until the page is refreshed and it moves up to where it should, in the center.

Could the page source problem be down to my css coding?
Is the center div problem connected to the page source problem in some way?

You could understand better if I can post my link but I don't know if that is allowed?

[jdMorgan]

This problem often happens when IE's Temporary Internet Files get corrupted, or when the index of those files gets corrupted.

It's unlikely that any CSS coding would affect IE's ability to do View Page Source. Try using Internet Options->Temporary Internet Files->Delete Files to flush your browser cache completely.

If the above flushing doesn't work, then there's a more complicated way to delete the Temporary Internet Files more completely. But it requires you to login using a separate Administrator account to actually delete C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat; If the above simple fix works, it's certainly much easier. I only use the second method when the index.dat file gets so bloated that it actually affects the performance of the machine. IE's default cache size is so ridiculously huge that this can happen if the index.dat file grows too large; Consider setting the cache size to 64MB or so, rather than the huge default size.

Jim

[spitos]

Thanks for the advice Jim.
I've tried clearing the temporary internet files from internet options and it still occurs.

I'll try the other option and see if that works.

[spitos]

I never did actually try option 2 because exactly the same thing happened on every computer I tried.

I'm pretty sure this is connected to using CSS.
Whenever my page displays wrong in IE I can't view the source, it works when it is displayed correctly and is too much of a coincidence.

Is it in any way a bad thing that the page source can't be viewed?
Does this indicate that spiders have trouble with the code or something like that?

[Candid India]

As long as your page is not loosing the design and the style sheet is being properly loaded there is no problem.
Most of the Visitors are never interested in code and also this does not indicate that spiders have any trouble