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alexandra
12-05-1998, 11:06 PM
I hope someone will have some ideas about this. It isn't an end-of-the-world problem, but it's still bothersome.

One of my pages refuses to take on a background color. I changed the background colors on my pages today, from cream back to their original light blue. One of the pages, perhaps fed up with being changed, refuses to be anything but white.

I've checked the source code, and I can only guess at what the code is, but it's identical with the other pages, which are blue:
Bad page:
<BODY BGCOLOR="#d2e1ff"
Obedient page:
<BODY BGCOLOR="#d2e1ff"

The page is fine in edit view (I'm using Page Mill. Sorry) and fine in preview view. But both when it's viewed through Explorer, it stays white.

I've uploaded the "blue" page twice. Then I went into the server-side copy and deleted the bad page through FTP and uploaded the good page again. Still no luck.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. There may be more pages than this that are messed up; this is the first I've found.

The page is http://www.balletalert.com/Attic/DV%20Archives/Bournonville/hell1a.htm

Thanks much.

alexandra
Del
12-05-1998, 11:21 PM
It looks light blue to me http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif Try pressing the [Reload] button while holding down the shift key. That will force a 'super reload' from the server. In other words, your browser is probably showing you a cached copy of the page, when in reality it's doing fine.

Del
Deb
12-05-1998, 11:22 PM
These are the problems that bother me most <grin> when the offending error is no where really close to the problem....

Your problem is being caused up in your META tags at the top of the page....

<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" TAG="XBOT" StartSpan -->
<
<!--webbot BOT="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->

notice the extra < if you change the above to
<!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" TAG="XBOT" StartSpan -->
<!--webbot BOT="HTMLMarkup" endspan -->

Your page will be blue again... that single gator sign is what is messing you up...

Hope this helps
Deb
alexandra
12-06-1998, 12:37 AM
Problem solved! Never had to delete a gator before, but it worked. Interesting. Those two lines of code weren't in the Front Page version. Since I don't know what they mean (I'm obviously still mostly illiterate in HTML) I don't know how they got there, or why they picked on that page. I guess this is what people mean when they say the WYSIWYGs write messy code!

Anyway, it's blue like its brothers and sisters, and I can go to bed happy. Thanks both Del and Deb.

alexandra