Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / HTML / August 2008

I just want people to click on a link to download a file.  I've done
it before, but this is a new computer and I must be missing
something.  (Possibly an Apache configuration setting?)
Here is the source for the link that generates the error:

In a recent crash I lost an application called ??validator (? means I
don't remember).
It was a three column screen where you cam enter the site and validate a
single page or a whole site on W3C. The results appear in green in the

Ive been looking around at some sites for information on understanding
PHP. I've come to the conclusion that PHP is basically BASIC.
With quite a few more features tossed in purely for the internet.
With my extensive background in BASIC, I believe I could incorporate

My knowledge of HTML could be fairly described as rudimentary.  I've
been using the older (now deprecated) "<font> tag to control font
characteristics.  I'd like to be able to display a character string
(word or phrase) with a highlighted background using the color of my

Often I write ordered lists, but it seems rather klutzy to literally
number the points.  I would like to visually let my readers know the
order of the list is significant, but without numbering -- something
more aesthetic, something more like bullets that clearly delineate the

Day two of HTML!
And I am using an HTML generator in a set-up where I never see the HTML,
but the generator is designed to use almost the same syntax as HTML so I
think I can communicate this:

I wish to control the text line-height, and the paragraph vertical spacing,
of several rows of text on a page irrespective of any styles in an external
stylesheet that is applied to the page.
In the following example I have set the margin top and bottom of each

Hi: Can any one please suggest me what i do changes in the page as i
check on some other monitors may be a resolution problem as the page
dont show right on some screens.
http://www.southeastneurology.com/testsite/indexnew.html

I've just taken a look at some web pages I created several years ago,
since when I've forgotten most of what little I knew about HTML
coding. Could someone kindly take a look and advise me if there's any
obvious fix I can make to pages like

Is there any *practical* use of writing, say,
 <a href="book.pdf" type="application/pdf">
with a TYPE attribute?

I am setting the content of a div dynamically using innerHTML
property. If the content contains an ampersand, text after the
ampersand is disappearing in IE6. It works properly in Firefox.
This is my code:

I've just taken a look at some web pages I created several years ago,
since when I've forgotten most of what little I knew about HTML
coding. Could someone kindly take a look and advise me if there's any
obvious fix I can make to pages like

http://appinterviewsbarbaraschwarz.blogspot.com/
http://appinterviews.wordpress.com
Anonymous Press Pioneer (APP) interviews Barbara Schwarz
APP: Why do people write about you?

In my latest version I'm working on, I now have a two division column
affair.
The left side is the primary name list. While the right will call up a
page for a description of that name.

http://oldies.1littleworld.com/screen1.jpg
http://oldies.1littleworld.com/test1.html
IE7 shows the table field as intended.
FF2 shows the same field with the area extending beyond intended and