Whats wrong with my HTML?

[jwolf6589]

On this page

http://www.cerm.info/bible_studies/Theological/limited_atonement.htm

My table displays great in FireFox, but for some reason does not display at all in Safari. Its not a big deal, but a minor issue I would love to have resolved. Please note that I wrote this document 3 years ago and was then using the outdated and obsolete Claris Home Page. These days I no longer use that app (cant anyway with my Intel Mac with no classic support) and use more modern HTML apps like Sea Money & Text Wrangler.

Thanks..

John

 

[a8ball]

Im only learning myself so I may be completely off but you have the following CSS for the tr "border: 0.5pt solid windowtext;". I believe its the windowtext that is not supported in safari from reading this post http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/1446.htm

 

[Darth.Titan]

Did you really create that page in Claris Homepage?

There's your problem...

 

[Timid&friendly]

The code is screwy. That is why it's not showing the borders. Your actually luckly that firefox does work because strictly speaking the inline styles are incorrectly coded.

First rule is delete all inline styles and all extra tags
You know have this:-

<td valign="top" style="width:239.4pt;border:solid windowtext .5pt;
  border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" width="239">
         <center class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">
                  <span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Times;color:windowtext"><b>THE
         5 POINTS OF ARMINIANISM</b></span></center>
      </td>

<td></b>THE 5 POINTS OF ARMINIANISM</b></td>

Really you should link to an external stylesheet but if you don't know how add these styles between style tag

<style>

table,
td {border: 1px solid #000}

</style>

Lastly remove from the <table ... > tag the border="1" attribute.

If you are going to spend time creating for the web, it might be wise to study the basics. Opera provide an excellent free course http://www.opera.com/developer/wsc/

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This is what it should look like:

<table width="670" border="1" >
    <tr>
        <th>&THE 5 POINTS OF
CALVINISM;</th>
        <th>&THE 5 POINTS OF ARMINIANISM;</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><strong>TOTAL DEPRAVITY</strong>
Sin controls every part of man. He is spiritually dead and blind, and unable to obey, believe or repent. He continually sins, for his nature is completely evil.</td>
        <td><strong>FREE WILL</strong>
Sin does not control man’s will. He is sick and near-sighted, but still able to obey, believe and repent. He does not continually sin, for his nature is not completely evil.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>etc.</td>
        <td>etc.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>etc.</td>
        <td>etc.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>etc.</td>
        <td>etc.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>etc.</td>
        <td>etc.</td>
    </tr>
</table>

just use this code and past your text in between the tds