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HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide
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HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Elizabeth Castro
August 2006
Beginner
456 pages
14h 55m
English
Peachpit Press
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Some Debugging Techniques

Here are my tried and true techniques for getting the kinks out of a Web page.

  • Check the easy stuff first (see pages 341344).

  • Imagine you’re a scientist. Be observant and methodical.

  • Work incrementally. Make small changes and test after each change. This way you’ll be able to pinpoint the source of a problem if one occurs.

  • In the same vein, when you’re debugging, start with what you know works. Only then should you add the hard parts chunk by chunk—testing the page in a browser after each addition—until you find the source of the problem.

  • Conversely, use the process of elimination to figure out which chunks of your code are giving you trouble. For example, you can comment out half of the code to see if the problem is in ...

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