Ridiculous simple HTML-file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=./test.html">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
</body>
</html>
When I open the file with any browser, the browsers behave well and reload the page every 5 seconds.
But when I refresh the page manually between two refreshes (F5), the IE (V 8.0.6001.18702) doesn't evaluate the meta tag anymore and the page gets no longer refreshed. Opera, FF and Safari still work as expected and refresh every 5 seconds.
Has anybody else experienced such a problem? How (apart of using Javascript, of course) could this issue be solved?
Edit 1:
Verified this behavior also on IE6, so I guess it's a general IE problem. Any hints how to overcome this?
Edit 2:
To keep that topic going:
is that a known problem or would it
be worth to file a bug ticket
somewhere (where?)?
Could someone
verify that behavior with IE7 and/or
IE9?
In IE 9 it works fine.
P.S. you missed a few quotation marks should be:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;" URL="./test.html">
As far as i know theres only the mta or javascript way.
Another option might be to use
header("Location: url");
if you can use php, its not really a refresh in it common way, but you could use to redirect to the same page again
As with the meta way, did you tried to put a full url? ( IE, arrg )
Generally speaking, use of the non-standard META-REFRESH is frowned upon by the standards bodies. Having said that, did you try with a fully qualified URL instead of the relative URL? If you're trying to reload the same page over and over again, did you try omitting the URL entirely?
Use this, I suspect your URL is not setup correctly
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
This always refresh itself.
Hope helps
:)
Javascript is going to be your friend for this one... it ends up working a lot better across browsers for the most part. Besides, meta-refresh is going out of style.
The following script and body onload attribute will continuously refresh the page every 5 seconds.
<html>
<head>
<script>
function timedRefresh(timeoutPeriod) {
setTimeout("location.reload(true);",timeoutPeriod);
}
</script>
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" />
</noscript>
</head>
<body onload="javascript:timedRefresh(5000)">
<!-- Content -->
</body>
</html>
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I am trying to write some HTML5 standards compliant code, where certain scripts need to be run only after the user has consented to cookies.
The html code looks like this, where the consent-script element, works exactly the same as the script element, however holds off loading the script until the consent has been given.
<head>
<consent-script src="myscript.js"></consent-script>
</head>
Everything works fine in all browsers,
However when I attempt to validate this using https://validator.w3.org/ , the custom-element tag apparently closes the head section, and generates a pile of errors.
Looking at the specifications, I can't see any reason why custom-elements cant be used in the section. But I am not sure.
My question is, can HTML5 custom-elements be used in HEAD? If I can, then its a bug in the validator service. If not, then I will have to find another way of not running a script until the right moment.
Thanks.
EDIT. Further investigation (Thanks #Danny'365CSI'Engelman) leads me to believe that even a browser is moving the custom element out of the head section, into the body section.
Some mock up code:
The source is:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<my-custom-elem></my-custom-elem>
<!-- other tags in the HEAD -->
</head>
<body>this is the body
</body>
</html>
Yet, chrome developer tools gives me:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<my-custom-elem></my-custom-elem>
<!-- other tags in the HEAD -->
this is the body
</body></html>
I am in the process of building a website and the browser keeps rearranging my HTML for some unknown reason. This is my code:
<DOCTYPE! html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is some text</p>
</body>
</html>
And here is a screenshot of what the browser uses:
(Sorry, don't have enough reputation to insert a real image)
This is all fine except when I want to use link to link an icon to the page, and it won't display unless it's in the head (I used the browser's dev tool and literally dragged the link up to the head and watched it appear immediately)
I've checked the source using the browser's developer tool and it looks exactly the same as in my code editor, so I know my web server isn't messing with it.
It does the same in Chrome and Firefox. It appears that they both use the head for script when a browser extension decides to put it there, but it does this even with no browser extensions.
I have tried the Notepad++ Encoding -> Convert to UTF-8 trick to remove the BOM character which supposedly fixes my issue but that did no good.
So how can I make the web page display as I wrote it?
Here is a download link to the file with the code snippet seen above:
http://www.filedropper.com/testpage_1
Thanks for any help!
Your Doctype is invalid. Error recovery is causing it to be treated as text. Since text is not allowed outside the body, it implies the start of the body element.
The correct syntax is:
<!DOCTYPE html>
The exclamation mark needs to be the second character.
This would have been picked up if you had used a validator.
I created a test page with your code and I can confirm that the developer tools show it like that. However, there is a typo in the DOCTYPE. Change the code to the following to fix it:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is some text</p>
</body>
</html>
The difference is that the exclamation mark needs to be before DOCTYPE, not after it. See The DOCTYPE in the HTML5 specification, which also points out that <!DOCTYPE html> is not case sensitive.
I am trying to display an image (gravatar), but the ampersand in its link seem to be problematic.
At first, I had:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="fr">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>& in url</title>
</head>
<body>
Link to image
<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f14e8ce12e7d7ffc11fe8a29127030da.jpg?d=mm&r=r" alt="display image">
</body>
</html>
The link (<a>) works fine this way, but the image (<img>) won't show. And of course it doesn't pass the w3c validation.
I encoded the ampersand to &, but the result stays the same (except for the w3c validation which is OK). I even tried a urlencoded version (via PHP) with no luck.
Any idea on what I am missing?
Edit: Nothing to do with encoding, this time. Ghostery (Firefox addon for privacy) was blocking gravatar images... Sorry guys and thanks for your help.
Your image is not dependent on URL parameters and it even works without any get parameters.
As It is mentioned in the comments, your problem is not with the URL, but with loading the content.
I have this HTML, valid for w3c:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="ISO-8859-1">
<title>COMUNE DI MILANO</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Ciao Mamma</h1>
</body>
</html>
I don't know why IE Switch to compatibility mode.
I found a meta tag that force the compatibility mode, but I want to know how to build a working HTML page..
Someone knows what will cause the switch? It could depends on Apache version / configuration?
Thank's a lot, Davide.
Try check the headers that are sent along with it, see if there's a X-UA-Compatible header that's set to something undesirable.
I am having trouble getting consistent behaviour from my Facebook Like button. I have created this example which I believe to be the simplest possible implementation...
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<fb:like href="http://www.stackoverflow.com" layout="button_count" show_faces="false" width="450" font=""></fb:like>
</body>
</html>
I have saved this as an HTML file which I am serving from a webserver running on my machine (localhost - I assume this won't be a problem as the page I'm 'liking' in this example is public-facing).
If I try this in Google Chrome, it appears to work without a problem.
When I try it in IE9, the like button renders, but when I click it, a new IE window opens which is mostly blank apart from a blue Facebook header. The URL of this page is: http://www.facebook.com/connect/connect_to_external_page_widget_loggedin.php?social_plugin=like&external_page_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stackoverflow.com%2F
This is really confusing me as the example is about as simple as it gets! Any help would be really appreciated!
EDIT: A little more information. If I go to Facebook in IE9 and log-out, then try my like button again, a new window still opens but this time I can login. After logging in, though, I still get taken to the same blank page.
In desperation, I tried accessing my local page from http://127.0.0.1 instead of http://localhost
This appears to have solved (or at least worked around) the problem.
I would love to hear from anyone who can explain what this is all about!!