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Aug 30th, 2012 at 10:54 AM
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Rick Martin
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I just took over maintenance on a website. I haven't changed anything to the site yet but I have come across a problem before I even started working on the site.

If viewed in Google Chrome, the drop down menus show up as a permanent drop down list of buttons. If viewed in IE, there are no issues; the menu bar appears correctly and the drop downs work as they should.

I have viewed the website build html and don't see where the problem is, so I was hoping maybe some of you with experience would take a look.

Javascript Menu was built by Deluxe-Menu.com

Website is: www.warmspringsinn.com

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rick
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Rick
Aug 30th, 2012 at 12:27 PM
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david wilson
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The page does not have a page doctype declaration at the top of the code.

eg: <!DOCTYPE html>

if you are coding in html. Since there is no doctype browsers won't know how to interpret the code and will all work willie nillie, possibly even messing themselves on things.
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Aug 30th, 2012 at 02:05 PM
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Jo Rice
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Let me also state that some browsers more forgiving than others and you have over 100 errors in your HTML. I would start by checking those out and fixing them also as well as adding the Doctype that David has mentioned. You can see those errors here:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1 … inn.com%2F

Good luck on it.
Jo

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Aug 31st, 2012 at 11:35 AM
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Rick Martin
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Thanks for the input to both of you. It has been a panic in someways here. This was not a job as normal.... I've had little time to do any real looking over the site. I had seen some errors at a quick glance but believe it or not, I hadn't even noticed the "Doc" issue.

Thanks for the help. I should have more time to go through it with a fine tooth comb this weekend.

Truly appreciate the input.

Rick
Happiness is a cup of coffee and a good mouse.

Rick

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