Re: What's wrong with this code??

Scripsit Bob Mathewson:

The code below is from a page on my personal site. It was originally
done with PageMill v.3. I know, I know, but I've had no major
problems with it before, even if it is obsolete.

Yes, we can see that it comes from PageMill, because the NATURALSIZEFLAG attribute is its creation and ignored by all other software. And yes, it's really messy. If you plan to create several such pages according to the same template, I'd suggest designing a better template.

The problem is, when I load this page, the word "Indiana" above the
Bobbitt family should display following the word "Elnora," as above
the first graphic.

Strange things happen to your page when the browser window width is varied - the texts appear oddly placed.

The immediate fix is to put <br> right before and after the <img> tags. This makes the images appear on "lines" of their own. Without that, the browser treats the images as huge letters that may be placed on the same line as text characters.

Moreover, changing <TR> to <TR valign="top"> (or doing the same thing in CSS) would probably make the appearance better.

<TITLE>grandparents1</TITLE>

Whose? A <title> element should specify the external title of a page, to be used in many contexts so that it alone gives an idea of what the page is about. It should be understandable as such, without seeing the page at all.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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