Monday, November 07, 2005

Firefox ignores http-equiv Attribute in Meta Tag?

I just solved a bug which was keeping me busy the last hours. A Form for multilingual input went crazy in IE since it always mixed up the special characters.
The funny thing was, Firefox had no Problems with it at all.. so i tested different charsets, but IE never showed any change in reaction and i almost went beserk until i found an error in typing of the meta tag:

<meta equiv="type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

You see the failure in http-equiv, which should say Content-Type. IE is very particular here, but Firefox seems to ignore it, since it reacted to all my changes perfectly...

For those who want's to see the right meta tag, here it is:

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

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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