Images not showing up in PC IE!

cross-platform problem

[LaslowHF]

The images within nested tables on my website are not showing up on PC IE or Netscape. They appear fine on Mac IE.

I've coded everything by hand from scratch and can't figure out what the problem is. The images have all been successfully uploaded to my ftp server and are being called properly in the code.

Here's a short sample:
<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=4 CELLPADDING=0>
<TR ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP">
<TD><IMG SRC="/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1"></TD>
<TD WIDTH="60"><a href="#" onclick="boxwood1()"><IMG SRC="/images/components/boxwood/bat.jpg" WIDTH="60"></a></TD>

I'm relatively new to this and the only thing I can think of is that either I'm missing some innate difference between the two platforms, or it has something to do with the javascript code I've inserted for pop-up windows.

Thanks for your help!

[MWpro]

It may be because you have the address for the images starting with a slash (/images/spacer.gif)

The slash shouldn't make a difference, but that may very well be what it is.

Try taking that first slash out. If you still have the problem, post here and it will be looked into further.

[LaslowHF]

Thanks for the advice. I tried removing the slash before the images directory and nothing changed. Any other ideas?

-Laslow

[tedster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Laslow.

Another thing to try (the very first thing I would do in any debug situation) is to validate the HTML. Don't worry too much at first about "warnings", but flat out errors can make for cross-browser problems that vary in their appearance.

[validator.w3.org...]

I also hand code, and I've sometimes had hard to see errors -- where I accidentally took out a ">" for instance -- that only a validator helped me notice.

[LaslowHF]

I'll try the validator. Probably won't get to it tonight. I'll write back if I still have problems.

Thanks!