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My hyperlinks won't work in Explorer

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I have designed a simple website for my cousin. The code is validated html, the css is also validated, however, for some reason I can't figure out, none of the hyperlinks work when the site is viewed in internet explorer. Works perfectly fine in firefox and safari. To view the website: www.carolweisbergburgess.com

here is the basic code that repeats on each page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

<title>Carol Burgess</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/front.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

 

 

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/lightbox.js"></script>

 

</head>

 

<body>

<h1>Carol Weisberg Burgess</h1>

<div id="expl">

<ul>

<li><a href="pages/contact.html" >contact</a></li>

<li><a href="pages/bio.html" >bio</a></li>

<li><a href="index.html" >paintings</a></li>

<li><a href="pages/links.html" >links</a></li>

<li><a href="pages/adfgallery.html">watercolors I</a></li>

<li><a href="pages/carolinagallery.html">watercolors II</a></li>

</ul>

<div id="next">

<p><a href="pages/image10.html" ><img src="images/backgroundprevious.jpg" alt= "previous" /></a></p>

<p><a href="pages/image2.html" ><img src="images/backgroundnext.jpg" alt= "next" /></a></p></div>

</div>

 

<div id="images">

<h3>Paintings</h3>

<p><img src="images1/1.jpg" alt= "drum" />

 

 

 

 

 

</p>

<p>In the Mood, oil on canvas 36"x36"</p>

 

</div>

<div id="back">

 

</div>

</body>

</html>

 

 

and here is the css:

 

body {

background-color: white;

font-family: helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;

font-size: small;

color: #660000;

width: 900px;

font-weight: lighter;

}

 

 

a {

color: #660000;

text-decoration: none;

font-family: helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;

border: none;

}

 

#expl a {

color: #660000;

text-decoration: none;

font-family: helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;

 

border: none;

}

#next {

margin: -40px 0px 0px 50px;

color: black;

font-size: 130%;

padding-right: 60px;

 

}

h1 {

font-size: 200%;

color: #660000;

padding:50px 0px 1px 0px;

margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;

text-align: right;

font-weight: lighter;

background-image: url(../images/backgroundheading1.jpg);

background-repeat: no-repeat;

 

background-position: left;

}

#images {

 

color: #660000;

text-align: left;

border-top: none;

 

border-color: #660000;

border-width: 1px;

padding: 50px 0px 5px 0px;

margin: 0px;

 

margin-left: 50px;

}

#expl {

width: 150px;

text-align: left;

 

color: #660000;

float: left;

 

padding: 30px 10px 375px 20px;

margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;

border-right: none;

 

border-width: 1px;

font-weight: lighter;

border-color: #660000;

}

#expl h3 {

font-weight:l lighter;

font-size: 150%;

}

 

#images h3{

text-align: right;

padding: 0px 70px 0px 0px;

margin-top: -50px;

font-size: 150%;

font-weight: lighter;

}

 

#copyright {

font-size: 75%;

text-align: center;

line-height: 1px;

padding: 0px;

margin-top: 30px;

margin-bottom: 10px;

border-top: none;

border-bottom: none;

color: #660000;

}

#images p {

 

text-align: right;

font-weight: lighter;

padding: 10px 0px 10px 10px;

margin: 0px 0px 0px 115px;

color: #660000;

width: 600px;

}

#images a {

color:#eeeeee;

}

#post {

padding: 5px 0px 0px 30px;

margin-right: 20px;

}

#next {

padding-top: 260px;

}

#next a {

color: #eeeeee;

text-decoration: none;

border: none;

}

#links a {

font-size: 175%;

padding-left: 30px;

color: #660000}

 

#links ul {

list-style: none;}

Strange, if i copy and paste the html into a file and test on my computer it works.

 

Try taking out the CSS referances and see if the links work, if they do there's something in the CSS code that causes the problem.

line 73ish of your CSS file has an unsupported character...

 

#expl h3 {

font-weight:l lighter;

font-size: 150%;

}

 

is the 'l' meant to be there - or is it meant to be a '1' - I changed it to a 1 and links worked and I also removed it and the links worked.

absolute links like that shouldn't be necessary in this situation. The fix is to remove the unsupported character form the css - not heard anything back so not sure if they've got round to having a look at this.

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