MrEdit

OK - I just tried that - text within <nukebillgates> is printed anyway...To be honest I rather think I've been distracted off on a red herring here - its an interesting question - but as it only concerns old browsers - and frames seem to be not reccomended anymore anyway... perhaps I am better off getting on with learning to code - I can come back ti this sort of stuff later when my general underrstanding of how the code works is rather better. Thanks for your help though Jon

I dont want to start a mac vs pc war so early in my posting career here, but I really couldn't let this pass. If you're using a mac (osx) - go to sharing prefs, switch on web sharing. That's it - you now have a full apache web server. Want php? simple matter of uncommenting a couple of lines in the apache config file and you're away. MySQL? - download the MySQL osx installer and install it. I have a fully functioning vbulletin install running on mine - and I knew virtually zero about the guts of the web until a week ago. In fact I've only just started learning HTML! This site (and this forum) is proving most helpful in my studies brilliant tutorial on the subject: Here

ThanksFor this to work - presumably browsers will simply ignore tags they don't understand rather than getting upset about them? If this is the case it all starts to make sense...So I can safely leave a<nukebillgates size="10 megatons"></nukebillgates>tag in my code with no ill effect...<edit>I actually just tried it and (alas...) it was duly ignored.As a matter of interest is this officially sanctioned browser behaviour or just what they all do to be forgiving?

Probably a really dumb question from an HTML beginner - but...If a browser doesnt support frames - how the ###### will it know what to do with the <noframes> tag?maybe its just the trange way my mind works...Just like to point out that the censored word above was not particularly rude - just the opposite of heaven. (pretty stiff censoring policy obviously!)