The ol' reply setting got me. Here's the message I sent to Troy but meant to send to all.
Skip Knox Boise State University On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Skip Knox <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. It's interesting; that was the problem all right, but > the solution wasn't where a person might think. It problem lay in the > encoding used by my editor, Notepad++. > > I saw the stray character and did everything I could think of to delete > that miserable sob, but without success. Then something clicked, from > threads on this very list. > > I figured using UTF-8 would be correct, since that's what I declare in the > document. But there's another option: UTF-8 without BOM. I chose that, > resaved the file and voila. > > FYI, the specific issue is encoding with da BOM on a Windows system but > delivering the file on a Linux system -- which just happens to be how I'm > working. So anyway, problem solved and thanks to all! > > BTW, to Sotiris: the doctype is correct. It's HTML5 and it validates. Just > sayin'. > > > Skip Knox > Boise State University > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Troy Harshman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Go to this line in your code and you will notice that here is a dot >> floating around like so... >> >> ". <!-- Begin site navigation sidebar -->" >> >> That's how it appears in Chrome. In IE6 it's showing a character >> symbol instead of the dot, which must be what's throwing things off. >> > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
