IE Gibberish on Myspace?

[betheny]

I have a webpage on Myspace, I changed it Saturday using PimpMyPage.com. I use Firefox...to me it looks good. Some other people asked why my page was now all symbols and gibberish, so I looked at it in IE. Symbols and gibberish it is!

Watup w/ this? Any easy fix or do I have to redo it again?

[Scott Pruett]

It's not jibberish. I'm not familiar w/ how myspace scripts things or what pimpmypage does, but looking at the CSS information, the primary font is set to "webdings" on pretty much every tag, which is the source of the issue. You need to figure out what you did to set this, & remove it. It may be as simple as changing the font setting, assuming there's somewhere you can do that.

[betheny]

LOL. Ican do that...Thanks Scott!

[Lewis]

Scott is right. The external CSS created by Myspace is being overwritten by internal CSS. Internal CSS supersedes external CSS. I'm not familiar with PimpMyPage.com but I would be willing to bet that that web site/program created the internal CSS.

Simply replace all instances of "Webdings" with something like "verdana". You could also try deleting all internal CSS (between <STYLE>...</STYLE>) including the tags to see how the external CSS renders the page.

[betheny]

See, this is why people are scared of change LOL. I'm usually loyal to verdana but wanted something cool like Nov has. So why not webdings?? Uhhh, maybe because I have no idea what it is. :p

Back to verdana. Now my tables are messed up. I don't know how people do a whole website, I can hardly do 1 page.

Thanks guys.

[Lewis]

That gibberish you speak of is Webdings! People can only display a font on a web page if their browser has access to it on their own computer.