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JenniferK · #1 01-08-2009, 03:02 PM

I have a community website using VB 3.7.3. I also use Logician's Webtemplates and the latest version of vBA CMPS. I use VBA to "wrap" a side column around my vBulletin pages since I could not get the side column mod to work after the upgrade. This solution worked great - except for one thing. One of my webtemplate pages was a coupon page for local sponsors. I want this to be a blank white page with black text so it is printer friendly (no side colum, logo, navbar, etc). Once I started using VBA to wrap the side column, I had to eaither wrap all of my webtemplate pages or none of them. I want them all wrapped except the coupon page, so I had to find another way to do the coupon page. My solution was to just put basic html code into a file at mysite.com/forum/coupons.

This worked perfectly until I realized that Firefox displays the html as text. I am far from being a coder so I am at a loss as to wheer to go from here. It may be a simple fix (I hope), but I don't know what it is!

Bellardia · #2 01-08-2009, 03:06 PM

What kind of page are you displaying there (php, htm, html, txt)?
It's hard to tell what the problem is without being able to see it...

JenniferK · #3 01-08-2009, 03:10 PM

Here is the page: http://www.huntleyneighbors.com/forum/coupons

IE displays it how I want it to, Firefox just displays the contents of the file as text.

Lynne · #4 01-08-2009, 03:12 PM

The page is not valid html. You need to have valid html in order for it to display as html.

JenniferK · #5 01-08-2009, 03:15 PM

I really am a novice at any kind of code stuff, so can you tell me what I need to do to fix this. Obviously I just made an html table. I'm not sure what to do to make it "valid" html....

Lynne · #6 01-08-2009, 03:25 PM

From here - http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html -

Quote:

Here's an example of a simple HTML document:

Code:

 
  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <TITLE>My first HTML document</TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY>
      <P>Hello world!
   </BODY>
</HTML>

Your table would go where it says Hello World!

JenniferK · #7 01-08-2009, 03:31 PM

Thanks for your quick reply!

I changed it, but unfortunately Firefox is still just showing the text!

Bellardia · #8 01-08-2009, 04:00 PM

Do you have a page extension?

I tried locating the page coupons.txt, php, htm, html etc and got 404 on all.

Lynne · #9 01-08-2009, 04:02 PM

This should be one line:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

Also, the page being called should be named something like coupons.html, not just coupons.

JenniferK · #10 01-08-2009, 04:50 PM

Thank you so much - I added the extension to the filename and made that all one line and that pretty much took care of it. It displays a little differently on FF, but at least it is there.

Thank you!!!!

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