Recently I found an interesting problem. A person complained to me that a link on a web page did not work. When I went to the page I was able to duplicate the problem with my default browser, Internet Explorer. Since I was pretty sure the developer who composed the page would have tested their links, I was puzzled. So I tried FireFox. The link worked! When I looked at the html code I saw the error immediately. He was using an <input> tag inside the link tags, <a>, to display a graphic. The <input> tag would have been appropriate if he wanted to display a graphic in a form but the <img> tag would have been the correct way to create a click-able graphic link. It looks like the developer had used some code from a form but he was sloppy in converting the code and had not tested the page with IE.<\/p>\n
What was interesting was the way Internet Explorer and FireFox responded to the coding error. FireFox ignored the error, displayed the graphic, and let the link work. It was a mistake but FireFox did not care. Internet Explorer on the other hand displayed the graphic but did not let the link work. Now that is typically a surefire way to get a developer’s attention. Too bad the developer forgot to test his page with IE! I ran the page through the W3C HTML validation service<\/a> and it did not flag this as an error. Hmm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I found an interesting problem. A person complained to me that a link on a web page did not work. When I went to the page I was able to duplicate the problem with my default browser, Internet Explorer. Since I was pretty sure the developer who composed the page would have tested their … Continue reading “Silly HTML mistake – different response from FireFox and IE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-css","tag-webdesign"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-9Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}